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The girl's heart sickened under the brutal frankness of a dozen calculating eyes, yet she valiantly maintained her part, while Shirley marveled at her clever simulation of silly, giggly, semi-intoxication.

From The Voice on the Wire by Ball, Eustace Hale

A momentary disappointment when he saw how little James's draft was—then a sense of that semi-intoxication which comes upon a poor man when a sum of money falls into his hands—gradually invaded his soul.

From Phoebe, Junior by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

Her appetite was insatiable; all day long she lived in a semi-intoxication born of an unaccustomed altitude.

From The Cow Puncher by Stead, Robert J. C.

Dave did not drink, and those confidences peculiar to a state of semi-intoxication were denied him.

From The Cow Puncher by Stead, Robert J. C.