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How to use laudanum in a sentence

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For laudanum to have a dormitive virtue is for any quantity of it to have or contain a power.
By the time I got home the next morning, bombed out of my skull on cheap tequila and even cheaper laudanum, she was already asleep.
Morphine and laudanum addicts were usually seen as pitiful unfortunates living failed lives as a result of their habits.
Any painkillers containing opiates, such as laudanum, were out of the question until the concussion went away.
Within a year, addicted to laudanum and alcohol and grossly overweight, George IV was dead.
Doctors would give babies phenobarbital for colic and laudanum for teething.
She took laudanum for this, as was the fashion, a habit that brought her to the attention of a fellow poet, the opium addict Coleridge.
The room where she wrote, in between bouts of melancholia and swigs of laudanum, remains above the old entrance to the stables.
It starts with some poets, gauntly tubercular sorts with laudanum habits and loose-fitting shirts.
They had forced down her throat the gobs of chalky calomel mixed with laudanum prescribed by the head-shaking doctor until her gums bled.
During the nineteenth century, laudanum, made from a tincture of opium, was a popular sleeping aid, but it was known to be fatal in large doses.
No, it is not the tincture of laudanum I placed in my thin gruel.
Our tincture of opium of today was developed from Sydenham's laudanum.
Several bottles of laudanum and chlorodyne were found in Dean's bedroom.
It is used as the source of material for production of several beneficial drug products such as laudanum and paregoric.
After a series of failed abolition bills, Wilberforce is hooked on laudanum and hallucinates contextless images of African children in chains.
Collins was a laudanum addict, yet he fulfilled his writing commitments on the nail.
It smelt of laudanum, and looking on the sideboard, I found that the bottle which Mother's doctor uses for her-oh! did use-was empty.
Hugely gifted, he was also scatterbrained, unreliable and, at the end, addicted to laudanum.
Opium and laudanum, which is a preparation of opium, are both stimulating and stupefactive.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Do not give the laudanum unless demanded by the severity of the pain, as it tends to constipate.
The azoth of Paracelsus, according to Mr. Browning, was simply the laudanum which he had discovered.
For this purpose the glycerite of tannin and laudanum in equal parts is good.
And lastly, two or three drops of laudanum according to the age of the child.
He must have seen, as I saw, that she wanted the laudanum to poison herself.
Should she take laudanum, and end it, to have done with all hopes, schemes, debts, and triumphs?
But forego, if possible, your pernicious stimulant of laudanum.
On the table was a bottle half full of laudanum, an old pocket-book, and a letter.
The second of these lines it is which betrays the presence of laudanum.
The doctor recovered himself when she asked for the laudanum.
In this interval he was induced to swallow forty drops of laudanum.
What a fool he had been not to buy strychnine, prussic acid, or laudanum!
The vision of her own distempered fancy followed her to the place where the laudanum was hidden, and vanished there.
It wanted five minutes to twelve, when the premonitory symptoms of the working of the laudanum first showed themselves to me.
It macerates its opium and percolates its own laudanum and paregoric.
There was no need to think them dead, for their stertorous breathing and the acrid smell of laudanum in the room left no doubt as to their condition.
Laudanum would settle the present ataxy of her animal spirits, and prevent her being too watchful.
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