soporiferous
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The garden is also enriched by the cucumber, the soporiferous poppy, and the daffodil, and the acanthus.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Its seed is prepared medicinally, being astringent and somewhat sedative; "So soporiferous," says Gerard, "that care must be had in the administration thereof, lest in provoking sleep you induce a drowsiness, or dead sleep."
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
The atmosphere is soporiferous, hardly conducive to editorial inspiration, and I find the commingled flavours of red-cedar, glue and rubber quite nourishing.
From The Fortune Hunter by Louis Joseph Vance
If I rouse not now, I must have more soporiferous qualities than the Sleepers! or even than the Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, who took a nap of forty years.'
From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
"Item, on the said day, in the evening, a julep, hepatic, soporiferous, and somniferous, intended to promote the sleep of Mr. Argan, thirty-five sous."
From The Imaginary Invalid by Charles Heron Wall
