In the times of St Thomas it [woman] was considered an essence as certainly defined as the somniferous virtue of the poppy ... ❋ M_francis (2009)
In a deep leather chair, his feet resting in another deep leather chair, at the Indoor Yacht Club, Harry Del Mar yielded to the somniferous digestion of lunch, which was for him breakfast as well, and glanced through the first of the early editions of the afternoon papers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
``To construct mechanically the brain of a somniferous tale, it is not enough to dissect nonsense and mightily stupefy the reader's intelligence with renewed doses, so as to paralyse his faculties for the rest of his life by the infallible law of fatigue; one must, besides, with good mesmeric fluid, make it somnambulistically impossible for him to move, against his nature forcing his eyes to cloud over at your own fixed stare. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
For the former, the revelations and fascination were regularly overcome by the somniferous effect of this essentially meaningless work. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The wine, which had exerted its somniferous influence over Mr. Snodgrass and Mr. Winkle, had stolen upon the senses of Mr. Pickwick. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And botany, about which he produced reams of somniferous poetry titled The Loves of Plants all about the sex life of eighty-three species of vegetation. ❋ James Burke (2007)
She seemed about to call down vengeance upon me; when, happily the leaden god, in pity to her trembling Lovelace, waved over her half-drowned eyes his somniferous want, and laid asleep the fair exclaimer, before she could go half through with her intended imprecation. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The Justice, whose eyes had closed under the influence of the somniferous lullaby of the song, started up in his chair as it suddenly ceased, and stared with wonder at the unexpected addition which the company had received while his organs of sight were in abeyance. ❋ Unknown (2005)
It would be a great mistake to think that we should banish from our tables all somniferous articles. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Her study of library - cataloguing, recording, books of reference, was easy and not too somniferous. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I did not find the jolting of the cart at all disagreeable, on the contrary, it had quite a somniferous effect upon me. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Somali good advice, long as the somniferous sermons of Mentor to the insipid son of Ulysses. ❋ Unknown (2003)
At last, however, even Martha the wide-awake was yielding to the somniferous heat of the day when a young man entered the bar and made her sit up with great alacrity, beaming all over her hard wooden face. ❋ Unknown (2003)
As for the somniferous members of the crew, they were carried one by one into the fishing boats and taken ashore. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2000)
His figure looked fragile as he stood in his pressurized spacesuit among the ruins of the long-deserted city on an old street where the grotesque animal plants of the deep-sea pushed up through the cracks of the pavement under the yellow somniferous light of the lanterns which still functioned although they had not been attended for centuries. ❋ Mahr, Kurt (1975)
This somniferous influence, which is to some extent exercised by local electrization, is here distinguished by its far greater constancy as well as by its greater degree of perfection. ❋ George M. Schweig (N/A)
But the irritated couple were not disposed to undertake the somniferous task, and shortly left the house, as they had come, walking the same way, but at a distance of a yard or so one from another. ❋ Various (N/A)
Starlight paddling over reflected stars was enchanting, but somniferous. ❋ Various (N/A)
-- The most tranquillising, or even somniferous melodies ever composed, must have been those written by the celebrated LULLI. ❋ Various (N/A)
