But Aby's look had quelled, or at any rate silenced him; and though he did advance another stage in tipsiness before they succeeded in getting him off to bed, he said no more about Sir Thomas Fitzgerald or his Castle Richmond secrets.
"Castle Richmond"
Anthony Trollope
From time to time he could see irascible facial expressions cutting through her guile of complacent concentration and close lipped smiles but he told himself it was just a bit of competitive strife or tipsiness even though he knew better.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
At all events he did not show his tipsiness so palpably.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid