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Sitting on the beams, Foma rocked his whole body to and fro, and out of the darkness, from the river, various human figures appeared silently before him—sailors, stokers, clerks, waiters, half-intoxicated painted women, and tavern-loungers.

From The Man Who Was Afraid by Bernstein, Herman

To Foma it seemed that he resembled a swab with which the steamer decks are washed, and this amused the half-intoxicated fellow.

From The Man Who Was Afraid by Bernstein, Herman

The half-intoxicated devils now became so clamorous as nearly to drown the howls of the damned; when suddenly the powerful voice of Faustus echoed from the upper world through hell. 

From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by Borrow, George Henry

Whatever is offered as a favor by a half-intoxicated despot to an humble inferior, it would be death to refuse.

From Cyrus the Great Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

Hung Wapu now accompanied one of his Chinese guests up the cellar-steps to the street, and sitting down on the top step began to chat in a low voice with his apparently half-intoxicated countryman.

From Banzai! by Parabellum by Grautoff, Ferdinand Heinrich