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He was what a Flagg caricature of him would be, with the same merciless truth in the grotesque. Kedzie had never seen him boozy before. She groaned, expressively, "My Gawd! you're pie-eyed." He sang an old song, "The girl guessed right the very first time, very firstime, verfirstime." He tried to take her into his arms. She slapped his hands away. He laughed and flopped into a chair, giggling.
Johnnie's ears stung pleasantly. "Hear 'em?" he asked One-Eye. "Course they mean me!" "Ad-mi-ra-tion," pronounced the cowboy, who always took his big words thus, a syllable at a time. "Sonny, y've knocked 'em all pie-eyed!" The barber shop was not nearly so regal as that restaurant of fond and glorious memory. And how deliciously it smelled!
Most of the crowd was pie-eyed by this time, anyhow, and would fight at the drop of a hat. After tying him securely, Ruggam caught up a billet of wood and and killed him with that." "Why didn't they electrocute him?" demanded young Higgins. "Well, the murder wasn't exactly premeditated.
Frank Nelsen asked. "Music of your own, to tell about space? Got any words for it?" "Nope," Mitch said. "Maybe it shouldn't have any words. Anyhow, the tune doesn't come clear, yet. I haven't been There." "Maybe some more of Otto's beer will help," Frank suggested. "Here one can, each, to begin." For once, Frank had an urge to get slightly pie-eyed. "High's a good word," he amended. "High and sky!
Old Murdock is up talkin' wild about damage suits, and there's evidently been one hell of a row, but I just got back myself from drivin' a drummer over to Watsonville." "Know if Darrell is in town?" "Oh, he's in town; there ain't no manner of doubt as to that." "Drunk, eh?" "Spifflicated, pie-eyed, loaded, soshed," agreed the liveryman succinctly. Welton shook his head humorously and ruefully.
'Rast had acquired the synonym at the business men's carnival in Boggs City the preceding fall. Sometimes he substituted the words "pie-eyed," "skeed," "lit up," etc., just to show his worldliness. After the young men had departed and the Crow girls had gone upstairs with their mother Rosalie slipped out on the porch and sat herself down upon the knee of her disconsolate guardian.
Unless pie-eyed, you cannot hope to grip. "Gentlemen," said Gussie, "I mean ladies and gentlemen and, of course, boys, what a beautiful world this is. A beautiful world, full of happiness on every side. Let me tell you a little story.
"Get back into the store, you young men!" ordered Chief Simmons crisply. "These heathen are pie-eyed and they'll shoot you up quicker than a flash!" "Who, That lot of freaks?" demanded Tom contemptuously. "Dick! Greg! Indians are the specialty of the Army. You go after the redskins, while Harry and I tame these bad men!"
In other eras he might have been described as swacked, stewed, stoned, smashed, crocked, cockeyed, soused, shellacked, polluted, potted, tanked, lit, stinko, pie-eyed, three sheets in the wind, or simply drunk. In his own time, Major Joseph Mauser, Category Military, Mid-Middle Caste, was drenched. Or at least rapidly getting there. He wasn't happy about it. It wasn't that kind of a binge.
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