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"You won't be making a very early start to-morrow if we jerk your boat much further," remarked Captain Andrews, with a smile. "Come," urged Bill. "We'll hunt up Charley and cut away back." The well-contented partners strolled on deck, anticipating a very tipsy Charley, whom neither steward nor bo'sun could discover. The sun had just set.
He broke the public law of temperance by his own excess, contriving to get at what he loved by a device both cunning and absurd. For he sipped the forbidden liquor drop by drop, and so satisfied his longing to be tipsy.
"The underneath's the tenderest part, is it? Just you come and try it, old 'un. Savage old tyrant that's what you are. Only just wish I was Sergeant Smithers and you was Private Ripsy. I'd make you Private Tipsy with sheer fright, that I would, and so I tell you. No, I wouldn't," he grumbled, as he cooled down a little. "I wouldn't be such a brute, for the sake of your poor missus.
Vessels were taking on cargoes of furs as soon as they were inspected. The river as far as Tadoussac looked thriving enough. Antoine met old friends, but he was more level-headed than some, and did not get tipsy. Lalotte held her head higher than ever. When it was getting rather too rough they made their way out. "Oh, the child!" she exclaimed, with a sudden twinge of conscience.
His knees shook so that he could scarcely walk. Some little boys stood to stare at him as he lurched by, and laughed stealthily to see the hated Maso tipsy. But Maso was unconscious of all this: he staggered on homewards with scorching eyes.... Old Marco lived down beyond the Railway Station a room in a crazy block of buildings that had been run up for the needs of the factory hands.
He seemed extremely friendly, as I say, but what surprised me a good deal, rather boisterous in the bargain; and the cause of this was soon to appear. For at the ordinary, calling for Rhenish wine and drinking of it deep, he soon became unutterably tipsy.
Harvey Bath was entirely satisfied in regard to the guilt of the tipsy man, and had already ascertained that the fellow was a "drummer" in Europe more politely called a "commercial traveller." He had also obtained the name of the man, and the address of the firm in New York city for which he travelled.
Snow, I've told you all I've got to say, and I must trouble you to leave me." Nevertheless there were many more words between them before Graham could find himself alone in his chambers. Though Snow père might be a thought tipsy a sheet or so in the wind, as folks say, he was not more tipsy than was customary with him, and knew pretty well what he was about. "And what am I to do with myself; Mr.
You may think that was no advantage; but I had just been down with yellow fever, alone in the outhouse of a wretched half-caste shanty, and the thing had given me the horrors. Well, one night I was told to put out a tipsy Lascar who was making himself obnoxious; he had come ashore and lost all his money and was in a bad temper.
But the real market commences at Chihuahua; north of which nothing is met with by the traveller, except the most abject moral and physical misery. Of course, our time passed most tediously; the half-breed were too stupid to converse with, and the Yankee traders constantly tipsy. Had it not been that Gabriel was well acquainted with the neighbourhood, we should positively have died of ennui.
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