Meanings of somniferous in English

His somniferous voice tended to send his pupils into a waking doze.

Her study of library-cataloguing, recording, books of reference, was easy and not too somniferous.

Starlight paddling over reflected stars was enchanting, but somniferous.

He seemed very tired, overcome with somniferous stupor.

It was of a remarkably somniferous character,-thecunning Le Duc had evidently some object in playing thus.

What is common, excites no surprise; and the stream of population rushes on without stopping one instant to notice these somniferous indulgences.

As an employer of labor, the main expense of a farm, you want beer to be slightly nourishing, and very inspiriting, not somniferous.

Quietude and solitude now came back again; the olden city, cold and somniferous, followed the new city with its bright sunshine and its crowds.

Perhaps, however, someone with practice in writing sermons will argue that the sermon without instances is as somniferous as the book-review with the same want.