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Meanings of take opium in English

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Usage of take opium in English
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The English girl is still called Poppy but she doesn't take opium any more.
The new yorker
2
One man can take opium with almost the impunity which belongs naturally to birds.
Doctor and Patient
3
If you take opium it won't be so bad.
Ruthless
4
How do people sometimes take opium without knowing it?
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoh...
5
You might as well drink, or take opium.
The Red Redmaynes
6
But any one will tell you that it is madness to take opium in this reckless fashion.
The Way of an Eagle
7
If you WILL take opium, we cannot help it, but you must drink no more vile liquor.
Without a Home
8
Why, then, do they take opium?
Far Off; Or, Asia and Australia Described / With Anecdotes and I...
9
Let me repeat, that at the time I began to take opium daily, I could not have done otherwise.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters
10
He used to take opium.
My Reminiscences
11
The doctor watches him closely lest he should take opium, and consequently become either very irritable or else quite stupefied.
Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland
12
Such as are wrought on by these persuasions either starve themselves of their own accord, or take opium, and by that means die without pain.
Utopia
13
Neither have I ever taken opium, hashish or other dream-producing agent.
Dreams and Dream Stories
14
Neither had I ever taken opium, haschish, or other dream-producing agent.
Reviews
15
He is taking opium enough to kill an ox every day of his life.
The Keeper of the Door
16
He read the Lafcadio Hearn books, and did not perceive that he was taking opium.
Kimono
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Take opium across language varieties
United Kingdom
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