I had certainly been flushed with wine when I left Rattray; it would be no bad thing for him to hear that I had arrived quite
tipsy at the cottage; should he discover I had been near an hour on the way, here was my explanation cut and dried.
Pierre drank one glass after another, looking from under his brows at the
tipsy guests who were again crowding round the window, and listening to their chatter.
Their hosts were surprised, explained where and why they had missed their way, said who the
tipsy people they had met were, and told them how they ought to go.
Very infrequent tipsy men, swollen with the value of their opinions, engaged their companions in earnest and confidential conversation.
Obedient to more anticipatory bars, she reappeared amidst the half-suppressed cheering of the tipsy men.
I had a nice time coming, and no trouble, except the
tipsy coachman; but Tom got out and kept him in order, so I was n't much frightened," answered innocent Polly, taking off her rough-and-ready coat, and the plain hat without a bit of a feather.
But Maclean had taken his share of the punch, and vowed that no gentleman should leave his table after the bowl was brewed; so there was nothing for it but to sit and hear Jacobite toasts and Gaelic songs, till all were
tipsy and staggered off to the bed or the barn for their night's rest.
But they were not only
tipsy; it was plain that they were furiously angry.
Alan, to be sure, was there, seated in a room lighted by noisy gas-jets, beside a dirty table-cloth, engaged on a coarse meal, and in the company of several
tipsy members of the junior bar.
Of course, from the point of view of Prokofy, seeing him in a torn cloak and
tipsy, he's a despicable person.
He was by this time just sober enough to do his work, and just
tipsy enough to take a spiteful pleasure in persecuting his wife.
"That's what I call love!" said Caderousse with a voice more
tipsy than ever.