All gazed on me; but none of them spoke except old Adam Muzzy, who was in his usual state of inebriety, which so strangely brightens one part of his faculties, and darkens another.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
Our peril appears to have been wholly owing to the inebriety of the boatmen; for, had they been able to do their duty, there would have been none, or certainly very little: and it was averted by the active and penetrating mind of Frank, which seems as if it were most accurate and determined, in its conclusions and expedients, in proportion to the greatness of the danger, when common minds would be wholly confused and impotent.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
Not without inner relation to the inebriety, and yet distinctly different, is the erotic character of the dance.
"Psychology and Social Sanity"
Hugo Münsterberg