morphia
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Carrington lived for half a day in what must have been awful pain, apologising to her aghast friends through a haze of morphia.
From The Guardian • Sep. 2, 2010
But even morphia could not fully dull the horror of this event.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
However, the action of both heart and lungs improved, and Van Helsing made a subcutaneous injection of morphia, as before, and with good effect.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
I will—or I pray—that he shall lie still without morphia, and that he shall have no pain.
From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May
They belong to the order of merely formal explanations, as when it is said that the toxic qualities of morphia are due to this drug possessing a soporific character.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John
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