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 had to stop it by an expenditure of will when I wanted every atom of will to keep my patient quiet and send him to sleep, if possible, without his morphia piq�res.
From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May
Some years ago, Mr. Charles B. Towns came to me with a letter from Dr. Alexander Lambert and claimed that he had a way of stopping the morphia habit.
From Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy by Towns, Charles B.
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