half-tipsy

Get him half-tipsy, pleasure him blind, and listen to him blather ... but don't try to come round him with jokes from Punch, 'cos they'd be lost on him.

Watershed 2010

When we reached the American side we had to declare to a custom-house officer that we were no smugglers; and then by an _awful_ road, partly covered with stumps, and partly full of holes, over the one, and through the other, our half-tipsy driver jolted us, till we wished ourselves a thousand miles from

The Englishwoman in America 2007

I did not experience them myself, possibly because my only companion was the half-tipsy Irish drosky-driver.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

We had very limp, melancholy horses, and my mago was half-tipsy, and sang, talked, and jumped the whole way.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

He looked at his friends with his blinking eyes, and not discovering anything to further provoke his rage in their half-tipsy faces, he lowered his head, sat still for a little while, and then turned over on his back on the ground.

Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories 2003

The saucy bullies, the half-tipsy roysterers, tired of domineering over every participator of the feast, dared to publicly flout me, defiantly sweeping with their tails the air, as an

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

The rope which fastened Michael, gnawed through by him, broke by the sudden start of the horse, and the half-tipsy rider galloped on without perceiving that his prisoner had escaped.

Michael Strogoff 2003

Get him half-tipsy, pleasure him blind, and listen to him blather ... but don't try to come round him with jokes from Punch, 'cos they'd be lost on him.

Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

Those who had queued up for the telecast could be distinguished from those intent upon the notorious dance, the former being loud, half-tipsy, and attired in deliberately sloppy duds, while the latter were more refined in deportment and dress, although they, too, maintained a festive air.

Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990

The military band were on hand, pounding away at "Aupr's de ma blonde", and getting most of the notes wrong; I noticed they were all half-tipsy, their black faces grinning sweatily and their uniform collars undone, while their bandmaster, resplendent in tartan dressing-gown and bowler hat, was weaving about cackling and losing his silver-rimmed spectacles.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977