soporiferous
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"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
At last the soporiferous fume of the wine lulled him into a gentle repose.
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
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
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 Jonathan Swift
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