Use drunken in a sentence
Sentences starting with drunken
- Drunken soldiers staggered past me; hags begged for sous or bread at corners; and devoted priests and long-robed Recollet monks, cowled and alert, hurried past, silent, and worn with labours, watchings, and prayers. [11]
- Drunken men lay in front of the taverns, and others were doing their utmost, by repeatedly draining their beakers, to follow their example. [10]
- Drunken men reeled against him. [9]
Short sentences using drunken
- A filthy, drunken ruffian, then? [5]
- I'm only a drunken swine. [11]
More example sentences with the word drunken in them
- See, my Sheila, your drunken, reckless lover pulls this sweet offering from his garden and offers it to you. [11]
- Last Easter day you were in a drunken sleep while Mass was being said; after the funeral of your own father you were drunk again. [11]
- A real reform would settle them once and for all, and wind up by giving us an alphabet that we wouldn't have to spell with at all, instead of this present silly alphabet, which I fancy was invented by a drunken thief. [5]
- Once a drunken woman spat at me and cursed me; once I was fired at; and many times from dark corners I heard voices crying, "Sauvez-moi--ah, sauvez-moi, bon Dieu! [11]
- She was pulsing with life, as a bird drunken with the air's sweetness sings itself into an abandonment of motion. [11]
- Other voices mingled with hers--lamenting, cursing, and entreating; for now the rainclouds burst, and through the window-openings poured a cold flood, chilling and wetting the drunken mob within. [10]
- Timokhin, armed only with a sword, had rushed at the enemy with such a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by surprise, the French had thrown down their muskets and run. [2]
- The amount of wine he had drunk to-day would generally have had no more effect upon him than water, and yet he had felt now and then as if he were drunken, and the whole festal hall turned round with him. [10]
- I love this wild world of the woods and fields and--" "And the shebangs and grog-shops and the dirty, drunken villages? [11]
- A drunken soldier, who soon reeled back into the tavern which he had but just left, distinguished himself as ringleader, and was the first to pick up a heavy stone to fling at the huge brass-plated temple gates. [10]
- You will not whistle and hum over that, but sing out with all your might, as you used when my mother was alive, when you and your apprentices joined Dionysus's drunken rout. [10]
- I have questioned whether their delight was not like that of the Spartans in the drunken antics of their Helots. [6]
- You made your way past the guards to the senator's coach; you came across the lake, and through the darkness and the drunken rabble in the streets; if I were to lock you in, you would be brave enough to jump out of the window. [10]
- Ah, the morning was silver with glory As I lay by my tent on the shore; And the soft air was drunken with odours, And my soul lifted up to adore. [11]
- Sheila's father's name was Erris Boyne, and he had been debauched, drunken, and faithless; so at a time of unendurable hurt his wife had freed herself. [11]
- Breton fishermen are usually shy of storm to foolishness, and one or two of the crew urged the drunken skipper not to start, for there were signs of a south-west wind, too friendly to the Bay des Trepasses. [11]
- He slipped it upon the string, and was about to haul it up, when the drunken orator on the platform caught him by the arm with fiery courage. [11]
- He has been up and down, now sober for a year, now drunken for a month, now in, now out of a place, until this past year. [11]
- Jim, drunken and unreliable, with broken will and fighting to find himself--the waste places were for him, until he was the master of his will and emotions. [11]
- Here she found Uarda bound hand and foot, and Kaschta lying on the ground in a heavy drunken slumber. [10]
- Presently a man totters across the threshold, upheld with sore difficulty by the gate-keeper Endres inasmuch as his own knees quake; and he who comes home thus, as he might be drunken or grievously hurt, is none other than my brother Herdegen. [10]
- Their coarse, barbaric tones shook the air, and reduced the Greeks to silence; for, even in his drunken and most reckless moods, the Greek never lost his subtle refinement. [10]
- I'm not used to being spoken to as if I were the foreman of a shop, and told to discharge a sensitive and cultivated man like Lindau, as if he were a drunken mechanic; and if that's your idea of me--" "Oh, hello, now, March! [8]
- He thought it to be some drunken ranchman. [11]
- Likewise hard by there stood a hand-barrow, full of such wine-jars, and we breathed more freely, for if the drunken rogue were not himself one of the highway gang, they must have found him there and seized the good liquor. [10]
- The mother of the youth that had been killed still sat huddled at the foot of the statue of justice, enduring the anguish of listening to these drunken revels with dull resignation. [10]
- As they reached the outskirts of the village a sorry camel came with a sprawling gallop after them, and swaying and rolling above it was Yusef, the drunken ghaffir, his naboot of dom-wood across his knees. [11]
- For Monsieur Duhamel, the old seigneur, for the drunken Philippe Casimbault, for the Cure, and for the Lavilettes, who owned the great farmhouse at the apex of that wedge of village life, he had a profound respect. [11]
- The return of the drunken chair-maker made a deep impression on him--almost as deep as the waking dreams he had had of his uncle calling him. [11]
- When returning by that street she had been unable to pass because of a drunken crowd rioting in front of the shop. [2]
- He flew at that dead corpse and kicked it, spat in its face, danced upon it, crammed mud into its mouth, laughing, jeering, cursing, and volleying forth indecencies and bestialities like a drunken fiend. [5]
- But just at sunset, hearing that the massacre was ended, the man had incautiously gone out into the town, where he had been slain by a drunken solder of the Scythian legion. [10]
- Because it was summer, when it is so beautiful out in the fields, the little town presented a particularly dismal appearance with its broken roofs and fences, its foul streets, tattered inhabitants, and the sick and drunken soldiers wandering about. [2]
- As she staggered, stumbled, through the village, Yusef, the drunken ghaffir, saw her. [11]
- Major Saxton was still reading when a drunken ruffian clambered up the bank behind them and attempted to pass through the lines. [9]
- Lassiter mounted the steps with Fay, and he swayed like a drunken man, and he too disappeared. [13]
- He pressed onward, staggering like a drunken man, with drops of sweat standing on his brow and with parched mouth. [10]
- He felt her stagger like a drunken creature, and he led her not into the fountain-room but to her bed-chamber, where she only begged to lie down; and hardly had she done so when she was again overcome by sleep. [10]
- Think of it, son-ingrate, assassin, robber of the dead, drunken brawler among thieves and harlots in the slums of Boston one month, and the pet of the pure and innocent daughters of the land the next! [5]
- I have heard some things from New York; and if they are true, one might well say of your party there, as a drunken fellow once said when he heard the reading of an indictment for hog-stealing. [7]
- He was in so ill a humour that he would willingly have met his old enemy, Yusef, the drunken ghaffir, and settled their long-standing dispute for ever. [11]
- Then, with a sigh of relief, he continued: "I pursued my way home like a drunken man. [10]
- The gates and shops were all closed, only here and there round the taverns solitary shouts or drunken songs could be heard. [2]
- I have never seen a drunken woman in Paris: I saw many of them in the daytime in London. [4]
- Did you ever see two drunken men walking arm in arm, and lurching first to one side and then to the other? [10]
- It's the Gover'ment's right to attend to that drunken dago that threw the horseshoe, and we've got to let the Gover'ment do it. [11]
- He waited till Polykarp had picked himself up, and, without looking round, but pressing his hands to the back of his head, had tottered away like a drunken man. [10]
- A sort of platform had been erected around the flag-staff and on it a drunken little habitant was talking treason. [11]
- The two drunken peasants followed them. [2]
- I "caught it" once more for personating that drunken Col. James. [5]
- I've seen lights on the hills, and drunken rioters in the roads and behind hedges, and once a shot was fired at me; but here I am, safe and sound, carrying out my orders. [11]
- The old man, on awaking from his drunken sleep, had been visited by a terrible remorse, and, whenever he had seen David coming, had fled into the woods. [11]
- He was sleeping off a drunken bout, and more by token the empty jar lay by his side. [10]
- Those drunken theories of yours, advanced a while ago--concerning the rat and all that--strip Man bare of all his dignities, grandeurs, sublimities. [5]
- Over the heads of the Gippy soldiers, with their pipestem legs, his look flashed eagerly, then a little painfully--then suddenly stayed, for it rested on the green turban of Yusef, the drunken ghaffir. [11]
- But that could not be, for the only drunken man encountered on their tour they saw at the Bangor Station, where beer was furtively sold. [4]
- Captain Martin seconded Newport in this; Smith protested against it; he thought Newport was no refiner, and it did torment him "to see all necessary business neglected, to fraught such a drunken ship with so much gilded durt. [4]
- One drunken man necessarily reminds one of another. [5]
- Suddenly a drunken navvy standing on a table in front of and to the left of Ingolby seized a horseshoe hanging on the wall, and flung it with an oath. [11]
- To show fear might precipitate a catastrophe with this drunken mob. [11]
- Bands of drunken men paraded the streets, crying: "Bartja, the good son of Cyrus, is to be executed! [10]
- Here an old man, yonder a younger one, sank prostrate under its scorching blaze or, supported by his friends, staggered on raving with his hand pressed to his brow like a drunken man. [10]
- So that I lived in hourly fear lest in some drunken fit Griggs might command me to be tortured. [9]
- His brain flew like a drunken dove to far points of the world and back again. [11]
- If the two leading parties of this day are really identical with the two in the days of Jefferson and Adams, they have performed the same feat as the two drunken men. [7]
- He often looked into my eyes like a drunken man, and he stammered when he spoke. [10]
- In the first instance Melampus, the tanner, a drunken swaggerer, who had failed in business, had marched up the street at the head of a tipsy crew, and pointing with his thyrsus to the dark, undecorated house, had shouted: "Look at that dismal barrack! [10]
- The vapourings of his drunken brain. [11]
- He staggered to his chariot like a drunken man. [10]
- Cawley had thrown his arms about the struggling, drunken assailant--Jock's poaching friend. [11]
- Hermas looked after him for a long time greatly distressed, for his strong friend tottered like a drunken man, and often pressed his hand to his head which was no doubt as burning as his lips. [10]
- Old sailor as he was, and knowing as well as any man the perilous ground, the skipper lost his drunken head this time, and presently lost his way also in the dark and murk of the storm. [11]
- Now and again he heard a cab rattling through the Square, and the foolish song of some drunken loiterer in the night caused him to start painfully. [11]
- Half-willingly and half-perforce, he followed the drunken throng which was making its way from the heart of the city towards the lake, where, on a lonely spot on the shore to the east of Nikropolis, they were to celebrate certain nocturnal mysteries. [10]
- If he could have told it to anybody, he would have done so to Michael; but if it was true that in his drunken blindness he had killed Boyne, he would not seek to escape by proving Boyne a traitor. [11]
- One would never have known that Benoit was a drunken idler. [11]
- It would naturally have been impossible in that noisome cavern of a jail, with its mangy crowd of drunken, quarrelsome, and song-singing rapscallions. [5]
- A large, broad-brimmed hat had slipped to the back of his head like a drunken man's, and covered a wound from which the red blood flowed down upon his neck. [10]
- Whether this were going to the Convent or no the drunken churl should tell, and a stream of cold November-water ere long brought him to his wits. [10]
- We could only gaze in drunken ecstasy and drink in it. [5]
- Pierre continued, in French, to persuade the officer not to hold that drunken imbecile to account. [2]
- I have space for but a trifling few of the results: Lord Byron was the son of an heiress and a drunken man. [5]
- She sat there for an hour, and then, when the sun was setting, she left the drunken man sleeping, and made her way down the hill to the Cloistered House. [11]
- A drunken, poaching fellow, he was told, who in all the years since Jock had gone, had never passed the inn without stopping to say: "Where's my old chum, Jock Lawson? [11]
- And then I fell to musing on how many life-histories these grey walls had sheltered for a fitful hour, how many stumbling wayfarers had eaten and drunken in this Hotel of Refuge. [11]
- Looking at his face in the mirror over the mantel, he said to himself "I might have had ten thousand friends, yet I have a thousand enemies, who grin at the memory of the drunken fop down among the eels and the cat-fish. [11]
- Herdegen had nimbly ducked, and had rushed on the drunken fellow sword in hand; but Duke Rumpold had put a word in, and by this morning Junker Henning seemed to have forgotten the matter. [10]
- Once or twice drunken soldiers stopped me and threw their arms about me, saluting me on the cheeks a la mode, asking themselves to drink with me. [11]
- Suddenly a great drunken ruffian collared him and said-- "Out to this time of night again, and hast not brought a farthing home, I warrant me! [5]
- I must see drunken men, I must laugh with the jolliest before I am Caesar again. [10]
- Out of the delirium of his drunken trance had come Charley's recognition of the man he knew now as Jo Portugais. [11]
- Among a drunken crowd, which was rushing wildly along the streets, and which Alexander had joined, himself one of the wildest, this man had marched, sober and dignified as he was at this moment, in the same flowing raiment. [10]
- He used to cross the street to get out of the way of drunken men--he wouldn't have one of them in his church. [9]
- Rising hastily, I closed the door of my bedroom, thinking I had to do with some drunken reveller who might be noisy. [9]
- Tired of Virginia City--An Old Schoolmate--A Two Years' Loan--Acting as an Editor--Almost Receive an Offer--An Accident--Three Drunken Anecdotes --Last Look at Mt. [5]
- In the latter case a chariot shall convey you as far as the second tavern in Khakem on the borders of the desert-for the city is full of drunken soldiery. [10]
- The drunken man carried us past the point. [9]
- And this had carried him on; for, drunken as he was, he had sense enough to eke out the money, limiting himself to three thousand dollars a year. [11]
- Above the cheering came the sound of a drum beaten in marching time, and above that there burst upon the night what purported to be the "Marseillaise," taken up and bawled by a hundred drunken throats and without words. [9]
- He started forward, but the drunken young habitant lurched sideways under the tree and collapsed upon the ground, a bottle of whiskey falling out of his pocket and rolling almost to his own feet. [11]
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