He had never before been struck with the significant contrast between the sharp, clearly-defined articulation, the vivid and varied tones of the gentleman, or even of the London street-boy when compared with the coarse, half-formed growls, as of a company of seals, which he heard round him.

All sorts of vague, half-formed thoughts were in his mind.

Directly above her, as though half-formed and coming down out of the shadows, was the shape of a single enormous hoof.

"Are my half-formed suspicions then too true, Balthazar?

Looking back at their four years of marriage he began to ask himself if he had done all he could to draw her half-formed spirit from its sleep.

Fortunately, she had some quiet as well as some social tastes, and was willing enough to pass two or three of the summer months in the country, where she was much better bestowed than she would have been at one of those watering-places where so many half-formed girls get prematurely hardened in the vice of self-consciousness.

Age, illness, too much wear and tear, a half-formed paralysis, may bring any of us to this pass.

Tapster's half-formed hope had been that he would walk with Bubbles this afternoon; but, when it came to the point, he had made no real effort to secure her company.

It was a pleasant surprise to have such a fact as this breaking upon us from an ambuscade, to help out a half-formed narrative which I had feared was hopeless of completion.

A chaos of half-formed sentences, for the ignorant pupil to flounder in; an infinite abyss of blunders, which a world of criticism could not fully expose!

Even half-formed, this soul was the source of a strange antagonism, against which the fleshly desire to return was powerless.

" He expressed this thought sluggishly, with stutterings and half-formed words.

The half-formed plan of sending Gladys back to Miss Russell's the first of the year faded from her mind.

Rage rose within him, and with a half-formed intention of taking her away from the crowd he started toward heror rather he elongated slightly, for he had neglected to issue the preparatory command necessary to locomotion.

She doubted he was pretending, and had a hundred ill-defined, half-formed suspicions of him.

Yielding to his half-formed resolve, he dug up his herd of cattle and put them on the table.

The wretched, half-formed suspicion that there was something hidden beneath Philippa's manner still pursued him; he wanted to see if she was the same to him.

Bared twigs of trees were folding, with clammy half-formed leaves, over the thick intertwisted tangles of the bushes.

I detested the sight of his thick nose, with the flaring nostrils, and his coarse, half-formed lips, of the bluish color of raw corned-beef.

But there was one motive not yet confesseda motive which could hardly be called a motive, for it lay dim and half-formed within his brain.

I mechanically followed, with a half-formed purpose of remonstrating with Major Brandon in behalf of the unfortunate girl, and was by that means soon in possession of the key to Mr. Ferret's apparently inexplicable conduct.

The air, rushing through the poultice-like mixture, caused a spluttering and gurgling, which, blending with the half-formed words, became that language ever since known as Welsh.

The demands of her new office of comforter gave shape to many half-formed thoughts, substance to many shadowy perceptions, something like music to not a few dim feelings moving within her; but what she said hardly seemed her own at all.

But before she could execute her half-formed design, the party had approached the entrance of the nuptial chamber; and the curtain being raised for their admittance, excluded them, the next moment, from her view.

Amphibious creatures, alligators, serpents, and wild fowl, haunt these yet but half-formed regions, where land and water are of the consistency of hasty-puddingthe one seeming too unstable to walk on, the other almost too thick to float in.