sleeping draught
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“I give you my word of honour that last night Helena never left her compartment. She took a sleeping draught exactly as I said. She is utterly and entirely innocent.”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
He said his master was in the habit of taking a sleeping draught when travelling by train.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
He left a sleeping draught, but Theon poured it down the privy shaft the moment he was gone.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Folly would never be Esm�'s refuge; she sat in her room, her sleeping draught ready, wondering what life would be like if, for mere amusement, she had been what Sir Thomas took her for.
From The Oyster by Peer
And, so when he went to bed she gave him a sleeping draught, so that he could not keep an eye open, for all that the princess cried and wept.
From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.
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