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soporiferous

adjective as in sleep-inducing

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And she poured from a golden urn, into a cup of the same metal, the sombre-colored beverage which she had mingled with the soporiferous juice of the nepenthe.

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If I rouse not now, I must have more soporiferous qualities than the Sleepers! or even than the Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, who took a nap of forty years.'

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At last the soporiferous fume of the wine lulled him into a gentle repose.

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And she poured from a golden urn, into a cup of the same metal, the sombre-coloured beverage which she had mingled with the soporiferous juice of the nepenthe.

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

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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