wake-like

Updated: May 28, 2025

Then he said, 'Give me another drink, O'Flaherty; it's wake-like I feel. Before I could get the cup to his lips he went off in a faint. He has come round now and has had a drink of weak whisky and water, and is lying quiet and composed. It is better that you should not go near him at present. I hope that he will drop off to sleep presently.

G. A. (George Alfred) Henty - With Moore at Corunna