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inebriated
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  • One afternoon, Mr Charles to his shame and regret had allowed himself to become inebriated in the company of two fellow guests - gentlemen I shall merely call Mr Smith and Mr Jones since they are likely to be still remembered in certain circles.†   (source)
  • …a good deal about her family situation as a child, and about her crossing of the Atlantic, as an emigrant; but none of it is very far out of the ordinary — only the usual poverty and hardships, etc. Those who believe in the hereditary nature of insanity might take some comfort in the fact that her father was an inebriate, and possibly an arsonist as well; but despite several theories to the contrary, I am far from being convinced that such tendencies are necessarily inherited.†   (source)
  • The man pressed ahead with the dogged persistence of the inebriated.†   (source)
  • But when I squatted down beside him, a strong stench of alcohol and urine hit me, and when he began to talk, it was clear he was inebriated.†   (source)
  • "Oh, no, you don't," said the man, his voice thick with inebriated indignation.†   (source)
  • In my inebriated and stoned ego-busted state, any girl would have felt good to me.†   (source)
  • As Saphira became increasingly inebriated, her emotions and thoughts washed through Eragon with more and more force.†   (source)
  • One called inebriated.†   (source)
  • An hour later, with Cobra completely inebriated, Andrea headed to the bathroom.†   (source)
  • He broke out the bottles of bourbon he had managed to buy on his four-day weekly circuits with the courier plane and laughed, sang, shuffled and shouted in a festival of inebriated ecstasy until he could no longer keep awake and receded peacefully into slumber.†   (source)
  • But even an inebriated Ghosh could counsel Stone that what he was about to do was not the act of an expedient surgeon but an idiotic one, and that his decision was wrong, his logic illogical.†   (source)
  • Men from Cemex, Vitro, Vidriera, Fundidora and American Smelting were all in various stages of inebriation.†   (source)
  • After I asked for Patsy more than a dozen times, an inebriated voice screamed back that she wasn't there, before dropping the phone.†   (source)
  • He managed to get the driver of the train drunk as well and was finishing a bottle of gin every hour walking up and down the carriages almost naked, but keeping his shoes on this time and hitting the state of inebriation during which he would start rattling off wonderful limericks—thus keeping the passengers amused.†   (source)
  • Shouldn't I feel inebriated?†   (source)
  • Up close the colonel was more inebriated than I had surmised, his sleepy eyes opaque.†   (source)
  • Booth fires his last shot, slides the Deringer into his pocket, and storms out the door, only to once again find the streets full of inebriated revelers.†   (source)
  • She had scarcely spoken the words when he reached across her and switched it on just an instant before the Philadelphia Orchestra, with its murmurous strings, hesitant at first then jubilantly swelling, commenced that inebriate psalm to the flowering globe.†   (source)
  • All the way down, the thought that John might still be in the house, inebriated and feeling his Schlitz, caused me a great deal of anxiety.†   (source)
  • There were two inebriated men vomiting blood, competing to see who could be louder.†   (source)
  • That's why they have a mother," the inebriated and apathetic husband answered.†   (source)
  • The patient, already inebriated, was terrified, abusive, and combative.†   (source)
  • His eyebrows arched and he looked at Sophie with inebriate, wet, fugitive eyes, unsmiling.†   (source)
  • Much to my relief, there are no celebrated murderesses among them, but only what the worthy Dr. Workman of Toronto terms "the innocent insane," as well as the usual sufferers from nervous complaints, and the inebriates and syphilitics; although of course one does not find the same afflictions among the well-to-do as among the poor.†   (source)
  • Stanchion had insisted that I leave it there last night, lest I break it on my long, inebriated walk home.†   (source)
  • The men jacked the lid off the barrel, imbibing began, the pile of wood was set on fire, an Alabaman transformed a huge can into a drum, and inebriated men began dancing.†   (source)
  • Rodney often visited the Lookilu to make sure that no one would try to drive while inebriated, and pretty much everyone who spent any time there knew there was a chance that he'd be dropping in sometime during the night.†   (source)
  • His new vice president, Andrew Johnson, has just delivered a red-faced, drunken, twenty-minute ramble vilifying the South that has left the crowd squirming, embarrassed by Johnson's inebriation.†   (source)
  • Cesar was detained by several policemen as one of them searched for a witness who wasn't too inebriated or tight-lipped to help.†   (source)
  • Lonely and drenched to the bone, Cesar realized that the closest friend he could think of in the whole world was an inebriated lieutenant commander whose name he didn't even know.†   (source)
  • The night before, in what seemed a rush of (perhaps inebriate) affection toward me, Sophie had promised to spend the entire weekend at the house before moving off to her new place near Fort Greene Park.†   (source)
  • Euphoric, inebriate glee welled up in me irresistibly when I found the appropriate, or, should I say, perfect poem; I was softly cackling to myself at the moment that the limousine rolled up to the graveside and I spilled myself out of the car, nearly sprawling on the grass.†   (source)
  • Jones too was dead — he had died in an inebriates' home in another part of the country.†   (source)
  • This is not a home for inebriates.†   (source)
  • Bell's eye on me to see I don't get too much, being explained, when I was out of the room, as the rather embarrassing local inebriate who's being taken in because his mother is so charming?"†   (source)
  • But Clara talking, Clara telling a slender tale of a hatpin and an inebriated man and herself….†   (source)
  • He stood there, smiling and observing the cousins, particularly Hans Castorp, and the delicate line at one corner of his mouth, the mocking curl of the lip just below where his full moustache swept handsomely upward, had a peculiar effect— somehow it exhorted one to be alert and clearheaded, and in a flash so sobered the inebriated Hans Castorp that he felt ashamed of himself.†   (source)
  • He was a man who would have made a success of life a century and a half ago when conversation was a passport to good company and inebriety no bar.†   (source)
  • Mine host Gil O'Hearn had as usual done himself proud and those assembled feasted on such an assemblage of plates as could be rivaled nowhere west of New York, if there, and washed down the plenteous feed with the cup which inspired but did not inebriate in the shape of cider from the farm of Chandler Mott, president of the board and who acted as witty and efficient chairman.†   (source)
  • Except the bullfighting inebriate there is only one person in the company who looks more than, say, thirty-three.†   (source)
  • He had drunk a good deal, but any inebriety from which he suffered was due much more to his own vivacity than to alcohol.†   (source)
  • As she thought less of his inebriety, she thought more of his inconstancy and presumption; and with fewer struggles for politeness, replied, "It is impossible for me to doubt any longer.†   (source)
  • Drusus took the inebriate in his arms.†   (source)
  • Her long dishevelled grey hair flew back from her uncovered head; the inebriating delight of gratified vengeance contended in her eyes with the fire of insanity; and she brandished the distaff which she held in her hand, as if she had been one of the Fatal Sisters, who spin and abridge the thread of human life.†   (source)
  • Richard at that instant thrusting a mug before him, his features changed to the grin of idiocy, and seizing the vessel with both hands, he sank backward on the bench and drank until satiated, when he made an effort to lay aside the mug with the helplessness of total inebriety.†   (source)
  • …was a liveliness which at first was astonishing, and then became almost painful; for he talked and laughed so loud as to bring scores of listeners round the box, much to the confusion of the innocent party within it; and, volunteering to sing a song (which he did in that maudlin high key peculiar to gentlemen in an inebriated state), he almost drew away the audience who were gathered round the musicians in the gilt scollop-shell, and received from his hearers a great deal of applause.†   (source)
  • As there was no performance that night, Mr Crummles declared his intention of keeping it up till everything to drink was disposed of; but Nicholas having to play Romeo for the first time on the ensuing evening, contrived to slip away in the midst of a temporary confusion, occasioned by the unexpected development of strong symptoms of inebriety in the conduct of Mrs Grudden.†   (source)
  • There is, in fact, in the matter of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic.†   (source)
  • Making himself very amiable to the infant phenomenon, was an inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness, who played the calm and virtuous old men; and paying especial court to Mrs Crummles was another elderly gentleman, a shade more respectable, who played the irascible old men—those funny fellows who have nephews in the army and perpetually run about with thick sticks to compel them to marry heiresses.†   (source)
  • He stammered a few more unintelligible words, then his head fell heavily on the table, and, as is the usual effect of the second period of inebriety, into which Enjolras had roughly and abruptly thrust him, an instant later he had fallen asleep.†   (source)
  • The cup that cheers but not inebriates, as the old saying has it.†   (source)
  • The woman is inebriated.†   (source)
  • To rise thither with my inebriate soul!†   (source)
  • The many people and the diverse wounds had so inebriated mine eyes that they were fain to stay for weeping.†   (source)
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