soporiferous
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All this I was told, for while the whole operation was performing, I lay in a profound sleep, by the force of that soporiferous medicine infused into my liquor.
From Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by Hartwell, E. C. (Ernest Clark)
"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 Wall, Charles Heron
All this I was told; for, while the operation was performing, I lay in a profound sleep, by the force of that soporiferous medicine infused into my liquor.
From Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan
His suggestion that the soporiferous medicines are likest to do it means that he thinks the delusions of witches subjective and produced by drugs.
From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Notestein, Wallace
And she poured from a golden urn, into a cup of the same metal, the sombre-coloured beverage which she had mingled with the soporiferous juice of the nepenthe.
From King Candaules by Hearn, Lafcadio
