soporiferous

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And she poured from a golden urn, into a cup of the same metal, the sombre-colored beverage which she had mingled with the soporiferous juice of the nepenthe.

From One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules by Gautier, Th?ophile

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 Vance, Louis Joseph

One of these, Erdaviraph, a young but holy prelate, received from the hands of his brethren three cups of soporiferous wine.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Milman, Henry Hart

No. Happily, however, that soporiferous monotony is beginning to get obsolete.

From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

Pronounce, define, and use in sentences: prosperous league inhabitant pulley perceived violent forty soporiferous syllable morsel dexterity metropolis intrepidity diminutive parallel hospitality 5.

From Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by Hartwell, E. C. (Ernest Clark)