A drug that induces sleep

Usage examples of soporific.

Trina has told me of the unexpected chemical reaction that continued to produce a soporific in my bloodstream.

Floyt looked back to Alacrity wanting to clarify matters then and there, but the breakabout was fast asleep in his chair, Subutai and Seism having cut in its soporific field.

Brutus was put into his bed and briskly dosed with a soporific herbal potion, Servilia put on a cloak and went to visit Fabricius the pearl merchant in the Porticus Margaritaria.

After a semisenseless and wandering Brutus was put into his bed and briskly dosed with a soporific herbal potion, Servilia put on a cloak and went to visit Fabricius the pearl merchant in the Porticus Margaritaria.

Mixolydian Etude failed to have the same soporific effect it had possessed in his boyhood.

But instead Celestine just spoke with the flat, soporific tones of one who could not quite believe she had made such an error.

His voice was malted milk, pleasant and soporific, an Eastern drawl, but determined to mingle certitude and defeat, as if the first could lead nowhere but to the second.

At st each rumor had been taken as gospel, creating its panic, but constant crises finally exert a soporific ïect, as though the mind and body, unable to absorb ny further terror, retreat into a protective shell of apa-Now the rumor mills had ground to a complete Jt, newspaper presses had stopped printing and radio stations had stopped broadcasting.

Like the scientist who, in analyzing the various clotting agents for blood treatments, found that oxalic acid and oxalic acid alone was, the active factor, Kidder isolated the accelerators and decelerators, the stimulants and soporifics, in every substance that ever undermined a man’s morality and/or caused a “noble experiment.

He’d already done the inventory: antibiotics, antivirals, immune-system boosters, sterilized bandages, acauterizing laser scalpel, surgical scissors, and a selection of drugs including decongestants, analgesics, and soporifics.

The drony voice close beside her acted as a soporific upon her nerves.

During the first six or seven months, we gave her an entire pharmacy of sedatives, tranquilizers, soporifics, stimulants, neural inhibitors, beta blockers, SSRIs, antiseizure drugs-enough medication to comatize a horse.

Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before He drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and ensnared you with long-term payment plans.

ACTS was designed to squeeze all of the functions of Camp Mackenzie, Recon School, and Raider School, plus the Cadre's own highly specialized requirements, into a three-month endurance contest guaranteed to make all of those other training experiences positively soporific by comparison.

The soporific homilies of its founder and spiritual leader, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, can be seen on television in America.