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.

"Bravo, old 'un, one of those will be a dose of laudanum if you get it home," cried Belcher.

Then he remembered that a week ago he hadlent his brother a phial of laudanum to relieve a fit of toothache.

Je cours apprendre au médecin qu’il ne s’agit que de laudanum ; mais, grand Dieu !

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.

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