Thesaurus / somniferous
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I did not find the jolting of the cart at all disagreeable; on the contrary, it had quite a somniferous effect upon me.
LAVENGROGEORGE BORROWThis yelp, sounding above the somniferous monotone of grumbling, stirred Cap'n Sproul from his dozing.
THE SKIPPER AND THE SKIPPEDHOLMAN DAYThey were aware of the somniferous properties of the sap, and Dioscorides2005 mentions the variety with white seeds.
ORIGIN OF CULTIVATED PLANTSALPHONSE DE CANDOLLEIt was of a remarkably somniferous character,—the cunning Le Duc had evidently some object in playing thus.
FROM POWDER MONKEY TO ADMIRALW.H.G. KINGSTONNight otherwise fallen dark and somniferous to modern mankind.
HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA, VOL. XI. (OF XXI.)THOMAS CARLYLEOther peasants danced slowly, in a circle, to the drone of the somniferous Servian bagpipe.
SERVIA, YOUNGEST MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN FAMILYANDREW ARCHIBALD PATONIt must have been a work of vast ability in the somniferous school of literature.
THE SCARLET LETTERNATHANIEL HAWTHORNEClaude Bernard thought it the most somniferous of the opium alkaloids.
POISONS: THEIR EFFECTS AND DETECTIONALEXANDER WYNTER BLYTHCaro spoke of his "serious blague," while Victor Hugo found him "somniferous."
EGOISTSJAMES HUNEKERTwo o'clock has just struck, and no somniferous result has followed.
CAPER-SAUCEFANNY FERNWORDS RELATED TO SOMNIFEROUS
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