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Draught in sentence

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His Majesty, later, carried away by the evening draught of opium, without which no Rajput can talk or think, taught this irreverent stranger, who told him tales of white men beyond the seas, the royal game of pachisi.
The Maharajah swallowed the draught with many wry faces, dashed the last brown drops from his mustache and beard, and dropped back into the chair, staring with vacant eyes.
He gulped down the cooling draught that Kate gave him, and resettled himself on the pillows, while one wax-yellow hand played with the hilt of his sword.
The child's eyes began to grow dull and heavy, and Kate would have withdrawn her arm to give him another draught.
Kate, who had watched so long by bedsides of pain, was calm and strong; she soothed the child, speaking to him in a low, quieting voice, administering a sedative draught, doing the right thing, as Tarvin saw, surely and steadily, undisturbed.
Athos emptied at a single draught the glass he held in his hand.
"But methinks I need wine!" and he seized by the neck the last bottle that was left, put it to his mouth, and emptied it at a single draught, as he would have emptied an ordinary glass.
The biscuit and extract of meat were washed down with a draught of water mingled with a little gin.
"Yes," he said, "a draught of water; but it is the very last--you hear!--the last.
The tunnel was filling with steam, whilst a stream was forming, which by degrees wandered away into subterranean windings, and soon we had the satisfaction of swallowing our first draught.
After a moderate draught, he went quietly into a corner to rest.
Though there was sufficient depth of water to allow a light craft to pass the bar, there was not enough for the "Nautilus," whose draught of water was considerable.
And applying his black beard to the pitcher, he took a draught much more moderate in quantity than his encomium seemed to warrant.
Having made this goodly provision for washing down the supper, he seemed to think no farther ceremonious scruple necessary on his part; but filling both cups, and saying, in the Saxon fashion,"'Waes hael', Sir Sluggish Knight!" he emptied his own at a draught.
Then, as long as there was a ray of light, I stopped in the record-room at the town hall, with its dead flies and posters that flapped in the draught, and I read, sitting on an old weighing-machine, close to a window looking on the garden.
Here I gave him bread and a bunch of raisins to eat, and a draught of water, which I found he was indeed in great distress for, from his running: and having refreshed him, I made signs for him to go and lie down to sleep, showing him a place where I had laid some rice-straw, and a blanket upon it, which I used to sleep upon myself sometimes; so the poor creature lay down, and went to sleep.
The portions were handed round; those who liked took a draught of the water, the mug being common to all.
The play-hour in the evening I thought the pleasantest fraction of the day at Lowood: the bit of bread, the draught of coffee swallowed at five o'clock had revived vitality, if it had not satisfied hunger: the long restraint of the day was slackened; the schoolroom felt warmer than in the morning--its fires being allowed to burn a little more brightly, to supply, in some measure, the place of candles, not yet introduced: the ruddy gloaming, the licensed uproar, the confusion of many voices gave one a welcome sense of liberty.
Bessie now endeavoured to persuade her to take a sedative draught: she succeeded with difficulty.
Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
Oh, make haste!""Dear Mrs. Reed," said I, as I offered her the draught she required, "think no more of all this, let it pass away from your mind.
I rose, bathed my head and face in water, drank a long draught; felt that though enfeebled I was not ill, and determined that to none but you would I impart this vision.
"The sweet wind from Europe was still whispering in the refreshed leaves, and the Atlantic was thundering in glorious liberty; my heart, dried up and scorched for a long time, swelled to the tone, and filled with living blood--my being longed for renewal--my soul thirsted for a pure draught.
He seemed to devour me with his flaming glance: physically, I felt, at the moment, powerless as stubble exposed to the draught and glow of a furnace: mentally, I still possessed my soul, and with it the certainty of ultimate safety.
He still slowly moved his finger over his upper lip, and still his eye dwelt dreamily on the glowing grate; thinking it urgent to say something, I asked him presently if he felt any cold draught from the door, which was behind him.
He went down the two flights of stairs; then, as he was coming up againwith the water-bottle filled, he sat down, in his night-shirt, on a stepof the stairs where there was a draught, and drank, without a tumbler,in long pulls like a runner who is out of breath.
From time to time be coughed; then he raised the goblet to his lips and drank a draught with a grimace.
Is not the draught of fishes sufficiently fine and miraculous?
But when Lygia gave him a cooling draught again, he held her hand for a moment, and asked,--"Then must thou also forgive me?""We are Christians; it is not permitted us to keep anger in the heart."
Besides, Glaucus will give her a sleeping draught prepared by himself from drugs brought by me purposely from the city.
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