| As the criminal had a quartan fever, Fallopius wished to investigate the effects of opium on the paroxysms. |
| Rather spookily, an agave and some opium poppies had survived last winter almost unscathed. |
| Important are the accounts of opium, aconite, hemlock, and the thorn apple, showing careful study of widely known poisons. |
| In the Book of Venoms, he listed arsenic, aconite, hellebore, laurel, opium, bryony, mandrake, leopard's gall, and menstrual blood. |
| Now, while quoting John Milton and admiring Christopher Wren, he must face up to fire and plague and regicide, to the opium and slave trades. |
| By the time I got to university I was reading Marx and learning about how religion was the opium of the people. |
