dead drunk

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A storm, attempted murders, witches, wizards, invisible spirits, revolutions, characters drinking until they’re dead drunk, an angry monster named Caliban—can you believe it?

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

"Only dead drunk, I trust?" said the smith; "nay, a candle and a dose of matrimonial advice will bring him to life again."

From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Scott, Walter, Sir

Iago retorts: "Why, he drinks you, with facility, your Dane dead drunk," and gains, the speaker explains, easy mastery over the German and the Hollander.

From Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays by Lee, Sidney, Sir

That and the sunshine must have roused my hornet guest, for when I came back to the room, there he lay by the tumbler, dead drunk.

From Ways of Wood Folk by Copeland, Charles

He told our Mr. Morshed he'd follow him more sang frays, which is French for dead, drunk, or damned.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard