Her sergeant looked at her, an ironic half-smile crumpling the pale freckles on his dark, fine-boned face.

When he looked back up, he was wearing a weary, ironic half-smile; a smile that had as much pain in it as humor.

Tylendel nudged the other boy, and closed the book, then looked across the room at his mentor with that ironic half-smile she knew so well.

Firesong gave him a strained, ironic half-smile.

Will offered Akaar an ironic half-smile.

Then he looked up at her with an ironic half-smile.

He saw an ironic half-smile reflected in the glass.

A thin, cruel mouth turned up at one corner in an ironic half-smile.

Terenil favored him with an ironic half-smile.

Richard's familiar heavy platinum cigarette lighter flamed, revealing an ironic half-smile on the younger man's rugged features.