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 Mabie, Hamilton Wright

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

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

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 Burney, Fanny

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)

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