Cold Sober

You fringe sect members are bad enough without posting your kooky slightly-variant texts on a respectable cold-sober science blog! cereal breath ❋ Unknown (2005)

One of the first symptoms of time-lag is a tendency to maudlin sentimentality, like an Irishman in his cups or a Victorian poet cold-sober. ❋ Willis, Connie (1997)

In his anxiety to make it gentle he missed his destination by some thirty miles, but he did his cold-sober best. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1967)

His instantaneous change from a drunken dock - walloper to a cold-sober, deadly-skilled rough-and-tumble brawler ... and the unexplained deaths of half-a-dozen agents, as well as that of Bominger himself ... this was bad. ❋ Smith, E. E. (1950)

From words they came to blows, and while they were in the press of combat the clock struck one A.M. and they had to go home cold-sober and disgusted. ❋ H. W. Phillips (N/A)

"Anytime you say," I answered, in a cold-sober monotone. ❋ Les Collins (N/A)

It's one thing to take chances under cover of night when your heart is light, your pockets heavy, and wine is buzzing wantonly within your head: but another thing altogether to burglarise your enemy's apartments via the fire-escape, in broad daylight, and cold-sober. ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)