They are in bed, and, not to put a fine point on it, half-drunk.

Now we are half-drunk, let's go to dinner.

They was half-drunk, some of them.

He was half-drunk, but defended himself by the vilest abuse of the judge, who could not silence him.

I had but one nap of five minutes' duration, leaning against a tree, when it occurred to me that Jacques Richard, whom I sent under escort half-drunk to the tent, was not the most admirable companion for that poor visionary Lecamus, who had been accommodated there.

Sometimes, there was a sullen baleful gleam in the black eye, shaded by a campaign hat, but more often it was wide-open and reckless like a man half-drunk.

The sailor was half-drunk, but with a drunkenness wisely tempered that never went beyond the rose-colored period.

When the morning came, Ditcar presented himself once more to Morvan, whom he found up, but still half-drunk, and full of very different sentiments from those of the night before.

They were half-drunk when Ho Chang came back from the feast, and Elegant told them to go to bed, and that she would do some needle-work.

And so when Albert stepped on the piazza of the hotel where Westcott stood rattling his pocketful of silver change and his keys for the amusement of the bystanders, as was his wont, the latter put himself in Charlton's way, and said, in a dreary, half-drunk style: [Illustration: ONE SAVAGE BLOW FULL IN THE FACE.]

He got more than half-drunk that night; but a day or two later, when the ship was paid off, he went back from Plymouth to Cawsand, and within a week he had married her.

Go to the public-house and get half-drunk.

" "Half-drunk?" "Half-drunk!

" "Half-drunk?" "Half-drunk!

Don't I speak plain?" "Miners," said Burnley, candidly, "never get half-drunk in t' county Durham; they are that the best part of their time.

" "Then you get half-drunk, neither more nor less, or I'll discharge you as Hope has done, and that will be the worst discharge of the two for you.

When you are half-drunk come here directly, and hang about this place.

Judge then of his surprise, when, one night, Gerval returned home half-drunk, and asked them, if they were not beginning to think of the wedding.