Laudanum
in example sentence
Clélia s’enfuit épouvantée : elle comptait tellement sur la parfaite probité de don Cesare, qu’en employant certaine précaution, elle osa lui dire qu’on avait administré au général du
laudanum
, et pas autre chose.
More example sentences with word laudanum
He found him half asphyxiated by the
laudanum
that had been in his wine.
There's nothin' so refreshen' as sleep, sir, as the servant girl said afore she drank the egg-cupful of laudanum.'
He is a very nice boy, my Lord, but he is not acquainted with drugs; and I know that the prevailing impression on his mind is, that Epsom salts means oxalic acid; and syrup of senna,
laudanum.
The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had drenched his tobacco with
laudanum
in an attempt to produce the same effects.
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