soporiferous

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No. Happily, however, that soporiferous monotony is beginning to get obsolete.

From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

All this I was told, for while the whole operation was performing, I lay in a profound sleep, by the force of that soporiferous medicine infused into my liquor.

From Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by Hartwell, E. C. (Ernest Clark)

His suggestion that the soporiferous medicines are likest to do it means that he thinks the delusions of witches subjective and produced by drugs.

From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Notestein, Wallace

All this I was told, for, while the whole operation was performing, I lay in a profound sleep, by the force of that soporiferous medicine infused into my liquor.

From The Junior Classics — Volume 5 by Patten, William

As we did not speak above a whisper, a very soporiferous proceeding, I was not surprised that both Toby and William fell asleep.

From James Braithwaite, the Supercargo The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell