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But as I stared up into the depths of that intense opaline light, so clear, so pure, I realized how air, just air and nothing else, could leave a scatter-brained lady like me half-seas over. Only it's a champagne that never leaves you with a headache the next day! Saturday the Twenty-fourth
"Dere dey are, cappen," he said, "prime seamen when dey come to demself, and only just a little drunkee now. Dese two will answer for dem. Here, you come up, Sam Tar, and you, Jack Noddin." The two men summoned managed to get up the side, though it was very evident that they were half-seas over.
And he had too much pride and ambition." "I guess you don't know it, but he had a weak spot for liquor. That is the reason he drank less than the rest of us and that did show strength of character: that he could drink at all. I only saw him half-seas over once. He told me then he was always on the watch lest it get the best of him.
It may have been that this aqueous phenomenon was natural to one "half-seas over;" but not till he stood on the place of the Hôtel de la Ville, did Pisgah have any consciousness whatever that he walked upon the solid world. At this moment he was reminded, also, that he held a letter in his hand, his landlady's gift at parting; it was dated, "Clichy dungeon," and signed by Mr. Freckle.
Well, I was in great hopes he had some touch of mercy about him when I saw him making the punch, and my master took a glass; but Jason put it back as he was going to fill again, saying, "No, Sir Condy, it sha'n't be said of me, I got your signature to this deed when you were half-seas over: you know your name and hand-writing in that condition would not, if brought before the courts, benefit me a straw; wherefore let us settle all before we go deeper into the punch-bowl."
The Master of the Hounds received the kiss, while his neighbor, grave like a man half-seas over, said in a magisterial voice: "Brothers, I have an idea " "Your idea, Symphorien, seems to be to drain that amphora to the very bottom." "Yes, to begin with and then to prove to you logice and a priori " "To the devil with your Roman tongue!"
While a song was being sung, I heard one of the Pastucian officers near me say to a companion, looking meanwhile at Captain Pinson, who had on a uniform with a large amount of lace about it, "I have made up my mind to have that fellow's coat for my share." As the Pastucian officer appeared already to be half-seas over, I thought that he had spoken in jest, or that I had misunderstood him.
It was quite late before you came home half-seas over and gave me those five beans; rather short commons for a cock who has been an athlete in his day, and contended at Olympia, not without distinction. Mi. Well, so when I got back, and had given you the beans, I went to sleep, and Through the ambrosial night a dream divine ah, divine indeed! Cock. Wait: let us have Eucrates first.
"It is so much more cozy," he said. So off our hats came. We had not been seated ten minutes when we heard some very loud talking and much discussion in the corridor outside. Lord Lyons, who was nearest the door, jumped up to see what the matter was, opened the door, and peeped out. "Oh!" said he. "It is the Duke of Brunswick making a row; he is half-seas over!"
Webster told them he was sorry to go away so early, but was obliged to catch the tide, to cross the Firth of Forth. "Better stay a little," said Thomas Earl of Kelly, "till you be half-seas over." Rogers's Boswelliana, p. 325. See ante, i. 354. In the first edition, and his son the advocate.
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