Synonyms
Examples for "soporific"
Examples for "soporific"
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Maybe McFarlane's Scots growl just conveys greater determination than Jenkins's soporific slogans.
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The mere sight of them sparks memories of interminable, soporific biology lessons.
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It was almost soporific, the hauling of the oars, forward and back.
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The next time you smell mignonette, think of it as a soporific.
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Awake, she felt sorry for herself, and sorrow, no soporific, induced sorrow.
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His somniferous voice tended to send his pupils into a waking doze.
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Her study of library-cataloguing, recording, books of reference, was easy and not too somniferous.
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Starlight paddling over reflected stars was enchanting, but somniferous.
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He seemed very tired, overcome with somniferous stupor.
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It was of a remarkably somniferous character,-thecunning Le Duc had evidently some object in playing thus.
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At last the soporiferous fumes of the wine lulled him into a gentle repose.
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The garden is also enriched by the cucumber, the soporiferous poppy, and the daffodil, and the acanthus.
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One of these, Erdaviraph, a young but holy prelate, received from the hands of his brethren three cups of soporiferous wine.
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'July l3.- Icannotthink that I have not again imbibed some soporiferous drug.
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"Whence I conclude," said Fritz, addressing himself, "that my orations must be somewhat soporiferous."
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On the descent into New York, he half awak- ened, to a hypnagogic state.
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A middle-of-the-night state of consciousness that isn't hypnagogic, either.
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He can make his voice hypnagogic if he wants, keep you totally drunk on it.
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But there was a moment, that hypnagogic shift where the thoughts of the day faded into dream and the guards of rationality fell.
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The voices I heard-clipped ,angrysyllables- Iascribedto the combination of listening to Eros for hours on end and the hypnagogic twilight of my mind.
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"Note the decentralized structure of the hypnogogic state-inducers in the hypothalamus." Typhon comments.