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
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
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But even morphia could not fully dull the horror of this event.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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Mr. Weale's article was published in 1919, in which he speaks of an importation of about twenty tons of morphia.
From The Opium Monopoly by La Motte, Ellen Newbold
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
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