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stroke booked adj. Emboldened by drink to read yesterday’s private material aloud over the morning tea. Alveda arrived stroke booked and began quoting the magazine before anyone had found the mugs. stroke housed adj. Slowed by drink to the lingering pace of a late film, with breakfast postponed through several reels.
stroke magged adj. Drunk and idly turning the morning’s embarrassments as though they were pages in private reading. stroke of businessed adj. Drunk to the point where a considerable morning’s work consists of locating water and one’s trousers. Ambriella was stroke of businessed, conducting a large trade in excuses before breakfast. stroke of fortuned adj. Drunk enough to regard every survivable detail of the morning as an unexpected piece of luck. stroke of geniused adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a useful morning insight from a thought that merely arrived suddenly. stroke of lucked adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the morning dependent on improbable survivals: keys, wallet and an intact phone. stroke ordered adj. Drunk, with the result that the morning’s handwriting follows a private sequence no reader can reconstruct. stroke played adj. Drunk to a degree that makes the morning’s score depend entirely on how many attempts breakfast requires. stroke volumed adj. Drunk on the strength of one forceful morning pulse, after which the rest of the body declines further expenditure. stroked (/stɹəʊkd/) adj. Softened by drink into accepting every minor blow as part of the morning’s furniture. strokeed adj. Drunk since last orders, and moving through breakfast as though part of the brain had been misplaced overnight. strokelessnessed adj. Drunk by the third round, and still producing no useful movement when the morning requires one. Deuntray was strokelessnessed, unable to make the toast progress from plate to mouth. strokeleted adj. Reduced by drink to making small, confident errors and calling them decisive. strokemakered adj. Softened by drink into treating every casual swing at a problem as a well-timed solution.
strokemanned adj. Sharpened by drink into issuing instructions from the rear and expecting the whole boat to follow.
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