When he arrived, he was always already half-drunk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Saturday Caller]

Sometimes she knocked at my door, half-drunk, at 3 a.m.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret has Doubts]

I remember him smiling at me, half-drunk, looking crazy.    From Wordnik.com.  [When The Bough Breaks]

He was half-drunk, bleary-eyed and barely able to speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doom Brigade]

The vagabond, half-drunk as he was, noticed it and asked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference

You were in luck when poor Henri, half-drunk, rang you up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Old Lady]

He merely nodded, and set down his half-drunk glass of wine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

She left the half-drunk coffee and half-eaten toast on the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place of Execution]

Even half-drunk from your gift, they should have been a match for you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conqueror's Moon]

She was trembling, her half-drunk cappuccino spilling into the saucer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whispers Of Betrayal]

They had both been tired and half-drunk, to say nothing of the cindin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ship Of Magic]

Early morning Sunday saw me half-drunk and amazed by southern bird-song.    From Wordnik.com.  [joegood Diary Entry] Reference

Her voice was slightly blurred, as if she were half-asleep or half-drunk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conferences are Murder]

He was half-drunk, for it had been found impossible to keep spirits from him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castle Richmond] Reference

Rutherford and three sturdy fellows, armed, entered the house, all half-drunk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819] Reference

In the servants 'quarters, half-drunk and half-naked, sprawled on a grimy bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow Of The Lion]

Again a half-drunk Union soldier rode up to our gate and said: "Who lives here?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures] Reference

She waited until all was silent—or as quiet as a half-drunk crowd could manage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Wilds]

I've even had some good mid-Novembers, though admittedly I spent them half-drunk.    From Wordnik.com.  [elfpvke Diary Entry] Reference

At the edges of the headlights the stranger found me, half-drunk, adventure-ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zom Prom Mom] Reference

This was worse than overhearing a row between two half-drunk bargees on pay night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two For The Lions]

Most of the spears were stacked in the huts, many of the warriors already half-drunk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]

He swiped at the quasi-badger's head, but he was half-drunk and long out of practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villa Incognito]

The sleep cleared from Caris 'mind, but left it still muzzy, as if he were half-drunk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silicon Mage]

In fact, some said that the glasses, with their slightly skewed sides, looked half-drunk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freedoms Challenge]

But by now, half-drunk on Bardic Magic and elven charm and sheer weariness, he couldn't stop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chaos Gate]

There was nothing to be gained in pursuing this ladies 'room argument with a half-drunk woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

But Yeltsin's challenge this time was far greater than a group of half-drunk, aging coup plotters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yeltsin Defiant] Reference

Maybe they'll read it, and come to check ... and I'll just be sleeping, or half-drunk, or whatever.    From Wordnik.com.  [jaxraven Diary Entry] Reference

He throws a half-drunk coffee toward the sink, splashing coffee all over the red-checked wallpaper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Farrell: Fighting My Own Drug War: An Excerpt From What's Left of Us] Reference

She raced down after me, but being half-drunk she fell in the passage, and it was that which saved me.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference

When I came out there were several half-drunk glasses where I'd left mine, so I'd just given up on champagne.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magyar Venus]

Because a half-drunk old man had acted the father in front of me, I had rejected fifteen years of life with Christine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret has Doubts]

There's no club in town but will ring with the story of how the beauty was cunningly left to a half-drunk man's advances.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference

  Alex saw her walk down the brick steps into the yard, and watched her stand at the edge of the already half-drunk crowd.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orbit] Reference

Swede was taken by surprise, and was handsomely bowled over by the first onslaught of his half-drunk, half-crazed antagonist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference

Then the Pallantids saw him, and called to him, half-drunk with wine, "Holla, tall stranger at the door, what is your will today?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Types of Children's Literature] Reference