202 examples of half-opened in sentences

He plucked a large half-opened bud from a great sprouting branch and held it toward her.

But Don Camillo gazed, through the half-opened door of the chapel, on the kneeling form, the clasped hands, and the uplifted countenance of the beautiful penitent.

The shopkeepers, at the threshold of their half-opened doors, asked the passers-by what was taking place, and were only answered by this cry, "Oh, my God!"

At the end, on the left, a half-opened door emitted the reflection of a light.

At day break the bolts creaked, the door was half-opened and the jailers cried out to them, "Get up!"

He could see, through a half-opened door, the tempting array of food on the lunch-counter in another room; but he knew that he could get none, and he tried not to think of eating.

She half-opened her arms, but this wraith of the mother, he remembered, frightened the child, who clung sobbing to his father.

Near by was swinging the beaded tassel of a book-mark between the pages of a half-opened volume.

" The lady was busy with some crochet-work, when a girl, apparently about twelve years old, came through the half-opened folding-doors, and settled on an ottoman at her feet.

I fancied bright faces of curious housemaids peeping from the half-opened doors; while from the gallery the fair daughters of the Knight leaned gracefully forward, eying the youthful prisoner with that pity "that dwells in womanhood."

They were not indulging in cards, or playing the piano, while little Tinay, the youngest of the girls, became bored playing chongka by herself, without being able to understand the interest awakened by assaults, conspiracies, and sacks of powder, when there were in the seven holes so many beautiful cowries that seemed to be winking at her in unison and smiled with their tiny mouths half-opened, begging to be carried up to the home.

After this she read it carefully and deliberately; and all this while there was such a stillness, that the sound of the tall varnished clock in the best room could be heard through the half-opened door.

She sat trying to read till about midnight, when through her half-opened windows came the soft whistle she had been waiting for.

Certainly a chaste and simple young girl, fair and fresh as a spring morning, sweet as the perfume of the violet, and whose mind and body alike are as pure as the petals of a half-opened lily, is the most heavenly and the most adorable thing in the world.

His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wings, on the branch, he watches the result.

From deck to deck, down lane after lane of the great floating village, I raced blindly, peering into half-opened doors, pushing through groups of men, pursuing some one in the distance who appeared to be the man I sought, only to find he was unknown to me.

The man half-opened his eyes, smiling.

" "Will not the princess leave her sisters of dreams?" whispered the voice, fantastically, "Will she not come?" Virginia shivered, and half-opened her eyes, but did not stir.

The last deep notes of the gong died away, and Vera's eyes half-opened again.

The door was closed; but through a half-opened window he could see a patch of silk; a woman's back, bending slightly forward over the music.

Her half-opened eyes were encircled with temporary wrinkles.

A man's head was thrust through the half-opened door at the top of the stairs.

She was in her own cozy chamber now, and the silken hair, which in the early morning had been twisted under her net, was bound in heavy braids about her head, while a pearl comb held it in its place, and a half-opened rose was fastened just behind her ear.

Her eyes half-opened upon him.

Nearly dead with terror and indignation, I crept stealthily to my own chamber, in which I locked myself up securely, resisting all friendly overtures of the enemy, except one cup of tea, received from the hand of a servant through the half-opened door (which was instantly relocked) of my citadel.

202 examples of  half-opened  in sentences