It was not an unmixed dread, for sometimes she brought a good story and the family enjoyed it.
"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"
Alexander Irvine
His eyes took on a kinder gleam, but the look he bent on the young man was not unmixed with suspicion.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
She had a new strange happiness, new hopes, new fears and new wishes; but they were not an unmixed delight; for she was also aware of a vague trouble, a want that nothing in her usual duties satisfied:-in a word, she had crossed the threshold of womanhood and was no longer a girl, "Singing alone in the morning of life, In the happy morning of life, and May."
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr