"Whence I conclude," said Fritz, addressing himself, "that my orations must be somewhat soporiferous.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Willis the Pilot] Reference

Petronius, in the time of Nero, A.D. 80, "delivered an odd receipt for dressing dormouse sausages, and serving them up with Poppies and honey, which must have been a very soporiferous dainty, and as good as owl pye to such as want a nap after dinner.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

Into this cavern the sun never enters, and a perpetual stillness reigns, no noise being heard but the soft murmur caused by a stream of the river Lethe, which creeps over the pebbles, and invites to slumber; at its entrance grow poppies, and other soporiferous herbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference

Amongst them all the father of the child remooved with his owne hands the stone of the Sepulchre, and found his Sonne rising up after his dead and soporiferous sleepe, whom when he beheld, he imbraced him in his armes, and presented him before the people, with great joy and consolation, and as he was wrapped and bound in his grave, so he brought him before the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Asse] Reference

As we did not speak above a whisper, a very soporiferous proceeding, I was not surprised that both.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Braithwaite, the Supercargo The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat] Reference

All this I was told; for, while the operation was performing, I lay in a profound sleep, by the force of that soporiferous medicine infused into my liquor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World] Reference

The atmosphere is soporiferous, hardly conducive to editorial inspiration, and I find the commingled flavours of red-cedar, glue and rubber quite nourishing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortune Hunter] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Candaules] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites] Reference

The doctor, having felt his pulse and examined his wounds, declared him much better, which he imputed to that sanative soporiferous draught, a medicine "whose virtues," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph Andrews Vol 1] Reference

Pronounce, define, and use in sentences: prosperous league inhabitant pulley perceived violent forty soporiferous syllable morsel dexterity metropolis intrepidity diminutive parallel hospitality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year] Reference

When we act without knowing the action and effect of objects on our senses: for example, when a man touches nettles without knowing their stinging quality, or when he swallows opium without knowing its soporiferous effects.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature] Reference

A dispute arose on this occasion concerning evidence not very necessary to be related here; after which the surgeon dressed Mr Joseph's head, still persisting in the imminent danger in which his patient lay, but concluding, with a very important look, "That he began to have some hopes; that he should send him a sanative soporiferous draught, and would see him in the morning.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph Andrews Vol 1] Reference