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They certainly had a very soporific effect upon the Flopsy Bunnies!
2
At the beginning I kept myself awake, but the endless repetitions had a soporific effect.
3
It was like the scent of orange-flowers, and had certainly a soporific effect upon the senses.
4
And that had a soporific effect on Peter.
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Comment: The release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere must be having a soporific effect on mankind.
6
Educational and psychiatric testing attempted, but unsuccessfully completed due to soporific effect of sedatives and disordered thinking.
7
My son's moth-eaten lion has a peculiar soporific effect; he breathes him in and is instantly tranquillised.
8
There are some strongly blended natures on which extremes of joy or of grief have a soporific effect.
9
Uncle Ingemar's low, monotonous voice lecturing about so commonplace a thing as Evil had a soporific effect on him.
10
He had never before realised the intensely soporific effect of the American sun, of the American air, the drowsy, sleep-compelling uproar of Niagara.
11
The soft bar music had a soporific effect and they sat in silence until Valgerdur reached over and took hold of his hand.
12
Oratory pleased them, whatever its subject; sermons, educational lectures, political programmes, panegyrics of the dead or living, appeals for charity-allhad the same soporific effect.
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I sank off to slumber in my chair, no doubt under the soporific effects of this metaphysical morphine.
14
The ride home is quiet, both of us trying to stave off the soporific effects of fifteen courses of macho-host food.
15
The soporific effects of mandrake are alluded to by Shakespeare, who also makes frequent mention of anaesthetizing draughts, the composition of which is not specified.