The beleaguerment continued, in a half-hearted way, till the spring.

Wasn't it the common talk among diplomats, the concurrent opinion of the French and English press, the despairing admission of the half-hearted and panic-stricken North, that one more such decisive victory would bring the South peace and independence?

France was divided and half-hearted under a tinsel emperor.

Nothing in all the world so strengthens evil as the half-hearted attempts of good to make good.

The cautious and half-hearted condemnation pronounced upon General Dyer's massacre and the notorious crawling order only deepens the disappointment of the reader as he goes through page after page of thinly disguised official whitewash.

Meanwhile that terrible thing which the people had vaguely feared had not come upon them; though at first they paused, half-hearted, when they passed the house of the Tintoret, where the quaint figure of "Ser-Robia," the Pasquino of Venice, had often a bit of news that the people cared to hear, grotesquely placarded over his broad mouth.

It might have implied, for example, that Victor's half-hearted and paltering distrust of Nogam had all along been only too well warranted.

indifferent, cold, frigid, lukewarm; cool, cool as a cucumber; unconcerned, insouciant, phlegmatic, pococurante^, easygoing, devil-may- care, careless, listless, lackadaisical; half-hearted; unambitious, unaspiring, undesirous^, unsolicitous^, unattracted.

Too often have we been too late; we must only hope that another item will not have to be added to that miserable list, and that, when the day of reckoning comes, no half-hearted and pusillanimous policy will stay our hands from the complete execution of that to which we stand pledged.

"Others have done as much, and I can but follow in their footsteps, and then reformation to be acceptable should not be half-hearted.

After they had seen him in battle it seemed to Alcatraz that there might be some reason for the flight of the herd and yet now their running was only half-hearted; he could have raced in circles around them.

It really is a decomposing collection of half-hearted buildings and moss-grown rails, with an apology for a platform at one side.

Leo, I fancy, was always more than half-hearted about the façade.

After a discouraging repulse from Sierra Leone, and the failure of several half-hearted attempts to obtain a footing elsewhere, the whole matter was allowed to sink into abeyance.

Ten pounds only were spent on the defences during the Civil War and the inhabitants seem to have made as half-hearted an attempt in opposing the Royalist besiegers as in the preliminaries of warfare.

" She gave him a small push as half-hearted as her laugh had been.

A dismal sight enough was presented when finally a few half-hearted torches were pressed into use to produce a scant illumination.

Lucullus reached this city in summer time, and although he directed his attacks upon it in no half-hearted fashion, he effected nothing.

The book was a collection of Browning's Poems, and it contained "Sludge"; it also happened that it contained "The Statue and the Bust"that stimulating lecture on half-hearted constraints.

By an odd chance Camoys had lighted on that song made by Thibaut of Champagne, beginning Signor, saciez, ki or ne s'en ira, which denounces all half-hearted servitors of Heaven; and this he sang with a lilt gayer than his matter countenanced.

The severest criticism he will ever pass upon her will be a half-hearted wish that she should exhibit the best side of herself more consistently.

The British commandant assumed the place of the procureur du roi, although there were one or two half-hearted efforts made to introduce the Common Law.

[Footnote 1: I say 'undecided,' because, apart from the 'so far,' which sounds terribly half-hearted, there are passages in these very pages in which Mr. Bradley admits the pluralistic thesis.

Whether the executors believed Mrs. Stanhope's story, or saw no reason to object to the publication of the letters, I do not know, but it is clear that the opposition was a half-hearted one.

With no half-hearted spirit the seagoing Bostonians showered well-weighed praises on Hull when his ship entered Boston Harbor, July 26th, after its narrow escape, and when he sailed again New England waited with keen interest to learn his fate.