sleeping draught

noun

1. any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep

Example Sentences

That night the Prince, impatient to forget the face of Truitonne, called for his sleeping-draught.

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And when she was left alone she hastened to drink a sleeping draught which she had already prepared in secret.

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I suppose you know,I began with harsh abruptnessthat the sleeping-draught story is a polite fiction?

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Let the sleeping draught do its work, and let the clear morning hours correct any fever in his own mind.

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It was late in the afternoon before she awoke, for the sleeping draught had been very powerful.

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