1 She sprawled back against a pillar of the porch and with a shaking hand unbuttoned her basque halfway down her bosom.
2 Melanie met them halfway, surprising Scarlett with her unexpected vivacity as she told of trials at Tara, making light of hardships.
3 She was halfway down the stairs before she looked toward the closed door of the dining room and saw a narrow line of light streaming from under it.
4 And when I came back, I was shaking in my boots and if you had come even halfway to meet me, had given me some sign, I think I'd have kissed your feet.
5 When I got as far as the Methodist Church, I was about halfway home.
6 By eight o'clock the place was so crowded that the speakers ought to have been flattered; the aisles were filled halfway up, and at the door men were packed tight enough to walk upon.
7 She found Clifford slowly mounting to the spring, which was halfway up the slope of the dark larch-wood.
8 And so the obscurity in the air and the obscurity in the land closed together in a black fraternization towards which each advanced halfway.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression 9 Mrs. Yeobright, for want of room in the larger apartment, placed a bench for the mummers halfway through the pantry door, which opened from the sitting-room.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face 10 Boots which extended halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence which was suggested by his whole appearance.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. A Scandal in Bohemia 11 We pulled up halfway down the street and waited an hour and a half.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads 12 I sat with my coffee-cup halfway to my lips and stared at Barrymore.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson 13 "Princess Drubetskaya to see Prince Vasili Sergeevich," he called to a footman dressed in knee breeches, shoes, and a swallow-tail coat, who ran downstairs and looked over from the halfway landing.
14 We were ordered to be at the place before nine, but we haven't got halfway.
15 Pierre glanced at the serious faces of those around, remembered all he had already gone through, and realized that he could not stop halfway.