Men drank and gambled and enjoyed themselves in the rough manner of mining camps; but they were hardly ever drunken and in no instance dishonest.
On the other hand there were some returning Californians, drunken and wretched.
It is probable that the rumors in question were merely the reports of boastfuldrunken vaporings and would better have been ignored.
It was one thing for a half-drunken rabble to take the life of a fellow man, but quite another thing for staid church-going men of business to do it.
Shoals of phrenologists, fortune-tellers, and the like, generally drunken old reprobates on their last legs, plied their trades.
To carry out this plot they called in a saturnine, lank, drunken individual whose name was Hube Maloney.
This sacrilege came while Henry's lips were tingling with their first kiss, and his heart was drunken with the red wine of innocent young love.
He told of the cause of his anger and his drunken quarrel, of his evasion of his pursuers and his vow with Cassandra before God, of his rejection of Doctor Thryng's help and his flight by night, of his suffering and hunger.
He is a lawbreaker in that way; and, more than that, he drinks, and in a drunken row he shot dead his friend.
But just a drunken quarrel between those two ought not to affect all the rest.
David felt like one drunkenwith weariness when he rose, and caught at the edge of the table to steady himself.
The drunken man who had fallen asleep by the stove sat by my side with greedy looks, eating nothing, for he had not paid his share; he was a man who drank away his gains, and he received no pity.
In fact, he ignored all that had passed during his drunken fit.
Anne, God above only knows what the wife of a drunken man has to bear.
You'll never be married to either drunken or sober.
At any rate, the drunken man finally got on the horse, pulled a bottle from his pocket, took a farewell swig, and then lurched forward as if he only maintained his position with the greatest effort.
As the drunken man crossed the hippodrome track, and neared the ringmaster, he again upbraided him.
By this light, a most perfidious and drunken monster!
A cowboy was feeding money into the music box to keep it going, giving it a coin, together with certain grave, drunken advice, whenever it showed symptom of a pause.
At other times it was mainly a quiet place, the shooting that was done on its one-sided street being of a peaceful nature in the way of expressing a feeling for which some plain-witted, drunken cowherder had no words.
He came face about just as the hat skimmed across the floor, stopped, jerked himself up stiffly, looked at Lambert with a leap of anger across his drunken face.
Somebody laughed behind the rock on his right, a laugh that plucked his heart up and cast it down, as a drunken hand shatters a goblet upon the floor.
He hadn't rehearsed through the feverish night all that he intended to do at that moment, and written a mighty poem, to be finally thwarted by a drunken father.
And then he stood holding the old man up, his heart thumping with the mighty expectation of seeing the girl enter the room, with secret joy at her father's blind, drunken eyes at such an opportune moment.
Then the aged drunken idiot swallowed another tumblerful of whisky and fell forward on his knees.
The thought that he was really Gabrielle's father made him feel quite tender towards the drunken man.
As Hillary came within three hundred yards of the grog shanty he could hear the faint halloas and chorus of oaths that mingled with the sounds of drunken revelry in the shanty.
When at last old Everard lay in drunken insensibility on his settee the Rajah was master of the situation.
But no answer came, only the snores of her drunken father and the sounds of tribal drums a hundred years away.
Fate may conceal her mystery, shut up within her hiding pale, But we who act as drunken men will from its face the veil Draw.
Aught of good accrues to no one witched by thy Narcissus eye: Ne'er let braggarts vaunt their virtue, if thy drunken orbs are nigh.
To most of our harvest hands that year Saturday night meant a visit to town and a drunken spree, and they did not hesitate to say so in the presence of Burton and myself.
The drunken uniformed brute raised his bloodshot, bleary eyes and took Jefferson in from tip to toe.
I see this," replied Jefferson, furious "that you are a drunken ruffian and a disgrace to the uniform you wear.
Everybody is always eager to oblige a drunken man, so Ashton and Fosdick tried to get a window open to look out.
All right, old fellow," said Fred as he passed out, and drew up against the wall to allow a drunken man to stumble heavily into the room.
Hereupon Gorman said "Good-night," and the deputy returned to the counter, where besotted men and drunken women awaited his attendance.
He lived then in the floor below us with a drunken companion whom he was anxious to reclaim; but he found him so hard to manage that he at last left him, and went to live in Hampstead.
Without a word the young men raised the drunken figure in their arms, and laid it like some loathsome object on one of the beds in the adjoining room.
Whereupon the defendant began to make a speech in his own behalf, but his flow of eloquence was quenched by the judge, and the jury soon found Savage as well as Gregory, one of his companions in the drunken broil, to be guilty of murder.
Swords were drawn and Savage killed a Mr. Sinclair, after which drunken act he cut the head of a barmaid who tried to hold him.
He was a "Yank" in local parlance, a frequently drunken Yank.
The doctor's wife told me a Polack came to her shack at two in the morning with half his thumb hanging off, bitten off in a drunken brawl.
In the middle of the room lies a man half recovered from a drunken brawl.
A reference to this coin is made in Drunken Barnaby’s Journal in the Oxoniana (quoted by Gifford) and in Sir Henry Wotton’s Letters (p.
Sir Thomas Overbury’s Character of A drunken Dutchman resident in England, ed.
The drunken orgies and rough horseplay of the Germans and Flemings disgusted him, and he took but little pains to conceal his surprise at what appeared to him such undignified proceedings.
A decent flat had taken the place of the shanty across the street where a 'longshoreman kicked his wife to death in drunken rage.
Of more than twenty-two thousand inmates of the Juvenile Asylum in thirty-nine years one-fourth had either a drunken father or mother, or both.
A drunken father or mother made the street preferable to the house, and to the street they went.
In each case children had died from neglect of parents, who, in theirdrunken rage, would certainly have taken the life of the physician, had she not promptly run away.
If a Danish peasant actually lay at times in a drunken stupor on a dunghill, he saw no reason why Jeppe should not appear on the stage in an equally disgusting condition.
He was of a short, burly figure, with a countenance much swollen and disfigured by his drunken excesses, and his fiery eye gave some expression to the fierce and choleric nature of his temper.
When I refused to own the bishop of my own free will, as you say, Lilian, do you think it a likely thing that such an edict, compiled by a few drunken and infamous men, will compel me to it?
They are exactly that drunken churl who made water into a fountain, and stood there all night before it, because he heard no cessation, and of course set down all the subsequent continuing sound to his own account.
No idea of assisting in the suppression of a dangerous drunken savage seems to suggest itself--nothing but what is called "seeing fair.
A crowd was collecting; there was no policeman, and no attempt was being made to stop the drunken brawl.
Some murder had been committed in a drunken brawl.
He was found sitting beside a dry ditch one winter evening--his drunken father was lying at the bottom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drunken" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
