He rubbed his eyes sleepily, and looked up in a vacant, tipsy way, leering knowingly at the soldier, who had caught him by the shoulder.
Well, in that sense it may pass, like a tipsy soldier without the countersign.
The troopers, too tipsy and subdued to remark the sudden paucity of the force that had overcome them, were tied upon their own steeds, Barney in front of the leader, and Rafe and his son in charge of the two others.
But never mind that now; don't get tipsy again, if you can help it, and that's all about it.
Did you not promise they should not speak; and hasn't that horrid tipsy wretch offered to embrace me?
Fanny, were you not a woman, would you persist in adoring Tom Hiccups, who beats you, and comes home tipsy from the Club?
His horse was at Kensington Square (honest Dapple knew the way thither well enough) before the tipsy guest of last night was awake and sober.
There’s the captain going on still with the burgundy—I know he’ll be tipsy before he stops—Captain Steele!
His fair Rosamond did not live in a labyrinth, like the lady of Mr. Addison’s opera, but paraded with painted cheeks and a tipsy retinue in the country town.
I have a cursed headache with drinking with Mat and some more overnight, and tipsy or sober am Thine ever ——.
But suppose fugitive Cato fuddling himself at a tavern with a wench on each knee, a dozen faithful and tipsy companions of defeat, and a landlord calling out for his bill; and the dignity of misfortune is straightway lost.
All night long, over his tobacco-pipe Castlewood did not cease to talk to Harry Esmond in praise of his new friend, and in fact did not leave off speaking of him until his lordship was so tipsythat he could not speak plainly any more.
He was not bred up in a tipsy guard-room, and did not learn to reason in a Covent Garden tavern.
They must believe that the carriage had been run away with, and in their tipsy rage they would seize any means of overtaking him that offered.
Recites] "The ring of gold, and rattling dice, And wine brings light to tipsy eyes.
The ring of gold, and rattling dice, And wine brings light to tipsy eyes.
O'Byrn rose with a tipsy laugh, swayed a moment and turned toward the door.
A gust of boisterous talk and tipsy laughter sounded from the saloon as the door was opened.
Right you are," replied Lambert, in the half tipsy voice of the mechanic.
He threw open the door of the captain's cabin, where he and the first mate sat, both far too tipsy to move, yet still trying to pour spirits down their throats.
The shots we heard told us that they had already fired at each other several times, but were too tipsy to take a steady aim.
In another place you might behold two sharpers fulfilling the conditions of their partnership, by wheedling a half-tipsy simpleton into a quiet game of ombre.
I heard a loud laugh, coarsened by drink, and the tipsy exclamation of a voice I knew: "There!
Since then, the detectives have followed all his movements and know just how much liquor he drank and to whom, in tipsy bravado, he showed the contents of his pockets.
I sent him to the post to inquire for letters, and the postmaster had been tipsy over-night and was not awake.
English woman, who was afraid of her tipsy customers.
This pleasant rivalry put us at once upon friendly terms; and I sat up and drank punch with him (or to be more correct, sat up and watched him drink it), until he was so tipsy that he wept upon my shoulder.
His Fair Rosamond did not live in a Labyrinth, like the lady of Mr. Addison's opera, but paraded with painted cheeks and a tipsy retinue in the country town.
She bade him give entertainments, of which she defrayed the charges, and was charmed when his guests were carried away tipsy in their coaches.
All night long, over his tobacco-pipe, Castlewood did not cease to talk to Harry Esmond in praise of his new friend, and in fact did not leave off speaking of him until his lordship was so tipsy that he could not speak plainly any more.
He never said a word that could anger anybody, and only became the more benevolent the more tipsy he grew.
Hath tipsy Frank Esmond come by the way of all flesh?
Augustus, in a thick and tipsy voice, as I got out of the carriage.
Oh, I am not a hypocrite to say that when I first went back into this room, full of tipsy horrors as its associations were, it brought Augustus back so vividly that I sat down and cried.
As he caught a glimpse of the tipsy individual's features, the Phantom started and wedged his figure into the farther corner of the hansom.
The tipsy passenger, sprawling lumpishly in his seat, rolled a little to one side as the conveyance turned a corner.
In the meantime the stout person had given the tipsy one a final departing shove, and now he stood aside, with thumbs crooked in the armpits of his vest, his face glowing with the consciousness of a job well performed.
Well, some of our men were very tipsy one night at the Bullingdon wine, and one of them left his handkerchief in the rooms of a Christ Church man, and what do you think they did?
Now don't go and get tipsy like some of our fellows did once at a dinner given by the Warden.
Woe betide the midshipman whom he should see elated with too much wine; and even to the common sailor who should be tipsy at the wrong time, he would show no mercy.
It would be calumny on him to say that he had allowed Scott to make him tipsy on this occasion.
Edouard drank to forget himself, but Dufresne was not inclined to bear them company, and Lampin got tipsy alone, trying in vain to make his companions laugh.
