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  • I meant to swallow the tablets and drink the opium as soon as the Germans tried to open my door.†   (source)
  • The dining area had a darkened, opium-den ambience, in contrast to other Chinese restaurants in the city.†   (source)
  • They import raw opium in the sugar packets.†   (source)
  • He went on to impress us with his knowledge of the opium-growing regions of the world.†   (source)
  • She liked to mix her own—a little White Diamonds, a little Opium.†   (source)
  • Once a large man, he'd grown thinner, whittled down by grief and opium.†   (source)
  • Opium, arms, and carpets were the town's lifeblood, and the men he'd met since arriving seemed as shabby and disreputable as his cheap hotel.†   (source)
  • Thinking , … Himalayas, yak butter, opium dens, and he said, "Well, the Scilly Isles in particular."†   (source)
  • Thus, without ever setting out to do so, she set in motion the myth that Jean de Satigny was practically a prince, never mentioning the fact that he spent his afternoons inhaling cocaine and smoking opium, because she was sure her parents would not understand.†   (source)
  • A mother who could not help me, a father who was an opium addict, and brothers and sisters who left one by one.†   (source)
  • Opium.†   (source)
  • It is the tiny amount of opium in paregoric that gives him some ease, or so he tells himself.†   (source)
  • Melissa and I were engaged in some gossip at the time about rumors of Tina Coleman's brother's addiction to opium, and I only made a sideways glance in the direction of the visiting Mrs. Fauxmanteur.†   (source)
  • Opium provided her only relief.†   (source)
  • Sometimes it looked like a French bordello, or a Victorian opium den, or the inside of a spaceship.†   (source)
  • When he shared an anecdote about a fox-faced kitsune in a Khoreshi opium den, David raised an eyebrow.†   (source)
  • Manhood Restored was my favorite: Nerve Seeds guaranteed to cure all nervous diseases such as Weak Memory, Loss of Brain Power, Headaches, Wakefulness, Lost Manhood, Nightly Emissions, nervousness, all drain and loss of power in generative organs of either sex caused by over-exertion, youthful errors, excessive use of tobacco, opium or stimulants which lead to infirmity, consumption or Insanity.†   (source)
  • I shake my head no, but Ty is quick to remedy that, filling a small pipe bowl with a miniature ball of opium-laced hashish.†   (source)
  • He wondered what this would be doing in a suite of guest rooms in the Hofburg, in the custody of Indian musicians who played under a cloud of opium smoke.†   (source)
  • Sometimes there were babies in the party, and once when there were twin infants, tiny babies that she had drugged with opium so that they would sleep, she found that one of the stopping places on the route had a new and hostile owner.†   (source)
  • Well, damn few of us did, even during the Opium Wars.†   (source)
  • There was a crude bookshelf made of three shingles strung together over the desk and I looked at the books, Byron's poems, novels by Sir Walter Scott, Confessions of an Opium Eater, some shabby brown volumes, and on the last shelf, Lift and Letters of ….†   (source)
  • He remembered second aunt with her cactus collection, fifth uncle with his beard, eighth uncle with that opium addict, socialite wife.†   (source)
  • ALAN: Who said 'Religion is the opium of the people'?†   (source)
  • And in its sky was such a sun as no opium eater could have imagined in his wildest dreams.†   (source)
  • Save for opium, I do not think that I could name a single drug, and what Sophie disclosed about Nathan produced the immediate effect on me of having heard about something criminal.†   (source)
  • He gave her a large shot of morphine, left a bottle of opium pills, washed his hands, and put on his coat.†   (source)
  • Some people said Miss Eckhart killed her mother with opium.†   (source)
  • Anything… opium, hemp, somnar, lethettes… I've got to wake up, Duffy.†   (source)
  • I was going to take the opium too, to make perfectly sure I died, but I had no time to do it.†   (source)
  • Since laudanum was an opium extract, I didn't doubt that she still needed it.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the opium had gone bad—perhaps she'd smoked too much this time.†   (source)
  • Much of their fortune has been drained away by opium.†   (source)
  • The morphine was not as good as the opium I'd been given.†   (source)
  • "She has taken too much opium," cried Yan Chang.†   (source)
  • I had to help hold him " "Opium …. will he be all right?"†   (source)
  • He left, and soon we smelled the smoke of his opium clouds.†   (source)
  • I saw Second Wife koutou to First Wife, bowing with deep respect while offering her more opium.†   (source)
  • He came with a plastic pouch containing tobacco opium, which looks like green bread dough.†   (source)
  • The only way to get rid of him for a few days is to give him money for his opium.†   (source)
  • His greed for opium is greater than any fear that his wife could be run through with a bayonet.†   (source)
  • If you ask me, the Flowers part of their name stood for the flowers that made opium.†   (source)
  • This household is a misery of shouting and madness, a constant search for money for more opium.†   (source)
  • But the opium topper provides a whole new set of rushes.†   (source)
  • I smoke opium and hashish so that I may spend my life in dreams-it will be easy to die.†   (source)
  • The Taipings forbade wine, opium, gambling, dancing, and tobacco.†   (source)
  • He pried off his shoes; loosened his collar; slumped in his seat like an opium smoker.†   (source)
  • I think of my father, and my stomach tightens at the memory of finding him in the opium den.†   (source)
  • "We had driven straight into a turf battle between opium smugglers," Mortenson says.†   (source)
  • With few resources available, Faizabad's economy revolved around the opium trade.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's the hash, the gentle arms of opium.†   (source)
  • The sick sweetness came from the opium that Snow Flower's father smoked.†   (source)
  • She replied in a froggy voice from deep in a trance of opium or hashish.†   (source)
  • Not since I pulled him from that opium den.†   (source)
  • For all their flaws, the Taliban had harshly suppressed the production of opium.†   (source)
  • It is the drink and the laudanum and the opium and that bloody refusal to live.†   (source)
  • I guess no other people have been able to use opium well.†   (source)
  • For several days Cathy lay in a cave of shock and opium.†   (source)
  • Adam went down into a heavy opium sleep though he fought to stay awake.†   (source)
  • I would pace, waiting for him, turn the television on and then off, dab behind my ears with perfume, Opium it was.†   (source)
  • A little opium, a little herbs, and a special kind of dragon bone we dig out from a secret place only our family knows.†   (source)
  • The opium taste of her mouth.†   (source)
  • I locked myself into the room, shook the contents of the small tube of strong sleeping tablets I had been taking while I had liver trouble out on my palm, and put my little bottle of opium ready to hand.†   (source)
  • The clock chimed five, and Kaltain fought the urge to rub her eyes as the opium oozed through every pore of her body.†   (source)
  • She ate a piece of raw opium, enough to make her sick, and then sent her maid to tell Wu Tsing she was dying.†   (source)
  • The Green Berets were still in communication, and they talked the pilot down, into the newly harvested village opium field.†   (source)
  • I resolved to have another shot of that opium soon as I returned, but for now it was all eyes upward, straight at the clear blue, cloudless skies.†   (source)
  • She did so many pretend-suicides, we servants began to suspect she no longer bothered to eat the opium.†   (source)
  • Thai opium restored me, set me free.†   (source)
  • And what she had done was eat ywansyau filled with a kind of bitter poison, not candied seeds or the dull happiness of opium as Yan Chang and the others had thought.†   (source)
  • With no roads, no electricity, no mail, little communication, where the principal industry is goats' milk and opium, the main water company is a mountain stream, and all freight is moved by mule cart, including the opium.†   (source)
  • Since the girl was to be a second wife and not a first, couldn't her dowry be a jar of opium and a jar of dragon bones?†   (source)
  • He bought opium for himself instead.†   (source)
  • His mother began feeding him opium.†   (source)
  • And Chang knew this could happen, because he had seen other men who were missing parts of their body for failing to pay their opium debts.†   (source)
  • One group of girls held up signs that were connected to Old Fate: opium, slaves, the buying of charms.†   (source)
  • Then Chang took another wife, who used to be the girlfriend of a warlord who had been trading opium for coffins.†   (source)
  • They put the Chang father in jail and beat a confession from him for owning many businesses, cheating people, and trading in opium.†   (source)
  • In one of the carts was the dowry, the jar of opium and the jar of dragon bones, the last of his supply.†   (source)
  • And it occurred to her now that GaoLing might have also censored the parts that dealt with her own secrets, her marriage to the opium addict, for instance.†   (source)
  • "You talk about kindness, you say we should have pity"—and before I could tell her what I really thought of her, I said, "and now you want to send my sister back to an opium addict?"†   (source)
  • They cured the opium smokers.†   (source)
  • He was hooked on opium.†   (source)
  • Still eating the opium?†   (source)
  • I am glad to know it, for one hears such unsavory stories at times—gentlemen being found in opium dens and forced into sanitariums for it.†   (source)
  • The lone exception was Xiumei, a wrinkled Chinese dumpling of a woman with a grandmotherly face that utterly belied the tales that Max had heard of her burning British opium ships, assassinating rival warlords, and driving a particularly lawless clan of vampires from her native province.†   (source)
  • I am well aware that some of our husbands "gambled" here-that perhaps part of that gambling was with their pants down-and that still others took opium, or young boys.†   (source)
  • Freshly worn panties, bras, pantyhose, a woman's T-shirt that says Dazed and Confused and still smells of Opium perfume.†   (source)
  • One weekend it's gambling for extraordinary stakes in Macao, next the races in Singapore or flying over to the Pescadores for the pistol games in backwater opium houses, betting thousands on who will be killed as men face one another across tables, spinning chambers and aiming at each other.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bonn, take this down: I want every vye in the opium dens and the jails and the dungeons loosed upon the camps tonight.†   (source)
  • The Opium Wars?†   (source)
  • One hears stories about the China districtthe use of opium is said to be rampant, the young women available for pennies, disease and poverty everywhere for those the railroads left behind once the laying of railroad track reached the ocean.†   (source)
  • …period); and (3) john's growing fear of his wife; his wife's maid, sukeena; and the house that together the rimbauers continued to build, and remodel, at an alarming pace. there are writings (though no substantial evidence) that suggest it was john, not ellen, who had lost touch with reality, and that during this time he became badly addicted to laudanum, spending days at a time in the opium dens south of the city and away from the monstrosity of a house he had come to fear.†   (source)
  • …and onions; two cans of salmon; a diminutive panettone; two one-liter bottles of red wine; a crock of butter; a bunch of carrots; a kilo and a half of cheese; two bars of soap; a box of tooth salts; iodine swabs; bandages; aspirin; tincture of opium; six newly washed woolen blankets; a down pillow; eight rolls of toilet paper; ten grenades; twenty signal or illumination flares; a Mauser 98; five hundred rounds of ammunition in ten boxes of fifty rounds; a bayonet; a first-aid kit; an…†   (source)
  • Now I realized not only that Snow Flower's father had fallen victim to the opium pipe, but that everyone in the upstairs women's chamber that day, except for me, had known exactly what Madame Gao was talking about.†   (source)
  • The Opium Wars.†   (source)
  • I am aware of the small scrap of paper in his pocket, an address in East London where he will find the opium he craves.†   (source)
  • In the bazaar, Mortenson could see that the people of Baharak, who grew, rather than trafficked, opium, lived in a subsistence economy like the Balti.†   (source)
  • Khan, like all commandhans, took a tariff from opium traffickers whose mule trains passed through his lands.†   (source)
  • But I suppose even the Oldham Sanitarium is a far better memory than the one I have of my father in an East London opium den, so lost on the drug that he'd bartered even his wedding ring for more.†   (source)
  • It was about the most disgusting place to sleep you could imagine, with all these seedy opium smugglers and unemployed mujahadeen burping up a storm.†   (source)
  • The headlights of an approaching vehicle illuminated the berms on both sides of the road where the warring squads of opium smugglers crouched, and their fire tapered off as they took cover.†   (source)
  • Everywhere, fields were full of red and white opium poppies, and beyond them, snowcapped mountains made the countryside seem more serene than it really was.†   (source)
  • At the peak of the opium-trafficking season, all the rooms were full, so the sleepy chokidar offered Mortenson a blanket and a berth in the hall, next to thirty other sleeping men.†   (source)
  • According to a study by Human Rights Watch, Afghanistan's opium harvest had spiked from nearly nonexistent under the Taliban to almost four thousand tons by the end of 2003.†   (source)
  • And those opium profits, funneled back to the warlords, as they were called in the West, or commandhans, as they were known in Afghanistan, enabled them to recruit and equip formidable private militias, making the feeble central government of Hamid Karzai increasingly irrelevant the farther you traveled from Kabul.†   (source)
  • They smoke their two pipes of opium in the afternoon and it rests and sharpens them, and they sit through the night and their minds are wonderful.†   (source)
  • Is that opium?†   (source)
  • Yes, opium dens, dens of vice and criminals' hangouts, Mother.†   (source)
  • The opium peddlers of the church had something there, but they didn't know what they had.†   (source)
  • The place in question was more or less well known as an opium-den of the lowest description.†   (source)
  • Of course, the proprietor of the opium-den denied everything with Oriental stolidity.†   (source)
  • Her body was a rotten reed with the opium she smoked and she could not endure the fright.†   (source)
  • In any case, the police were wrong: no opium was ever smoked there.†   (source)
  • "It will cost a great deal," he said slowly, "for opium is as dear as jade."†   (source)
  • Not even a stick of opium rewarded the zeal of the police.†   (source)
  • Thus, he had come greenly on his new life, unprepared, as he came ever thereafter on all new life, save for his opium visions of himself a stranger in Arcadias.†   (source)
  • I remember that she kept De Quincey's Opium Eater on her table, one of her favourite books; and for a birthday present she chose all the works of Scott which her father gave her in the first edition —some remain; others are lost.†   (source)
  • It made me a little more indifferent to my afflictions, a little freer in the use of opium and wine, a little more inquisitive to know the limits of endurance, but that was all.†   (source)
  • Already the hospitals were worrying about the scarcity of quinine, calomel, opium, chloroform and iodine.†   (source)
  • He took opium.†   (source)
  • It was as though she was suddenly impatient to be done with all this and to be left alone in the stillness of the great room with her opium pipe.†   (source)
  • He gave us each a little opium to smoke, and sitting motionless with open eyes we all three lived through the scenes that he suggested to us while Maria trembled with delight.†   (source)
  • In the pages of a thousand books he saw their portraits: Coleridge at twenty-five, with the loose sensual mouth, gaping idiotically, the vast staring eyes, holding in their opium depths the vision of seas haunted by the albatross, the great white forehead—head mixed of Zeus and the village degenerate; the lean worn head of Caesar, a little thirsty in the flanks; and the dreaming mummy face of Kublai Khan, lit with eyes that flickered with green fires.†   (source)
  • ] TOM: I'm going to opium dens!†   (source)
  • Chloroform was so scarce now it was used only for the worst amputations and opium was a precious thing, used only to ease the dying out of life, not the living out of pain.†   (source)
  • He had opium.†   (source)
  • But I put my resolution in this way: the next time I felt that I must have recourse to the opium, I might allow myself to use big means instead of small, that is, a death of absolute certainty with a bullet or a razor.†   (source)
  • And he said heavily, "When the old opium dreamer dies, I will find a man for you, then, and it cannot be long."†   (source)
  • Try a mild pipe of opium.†   (source)
  • And he appointed one of the laborers and his wife and children to live in the country house and to care for the two old opium dreamers.†   (source)
  • I fancy Mr Pearson smoked the opium fairly often down there and had some peculiar friends in consequence.†   (source)
  • Besides, shall not a Belgian gentleman with a moustache desire to see life and smoke opium just as readily as one without a moustache?†   (source)
  • Let us buy them opium to enjoy, and more opium, and let them have their will of it as rich people do.†   (source)
  • Then they brought us the opium-pipes and cooked the opium-pills, and we pretended to smoke and then to sleep and dream.†   (source)
  • Why, when he had poured out his silver proudly before the agent the man had scraped it up carelessly in his hands and said, "Here is enough for a few days of opium for the old lady, at any rate."†   (source)
  • So Wang said hastily himself, "I wish she were content with less, for it runs into a handful of silver a day for her opium, but at her age we do not dare to cross her and she wants it all."†   (source)
  • The proprietor of the opium-den was also taken into custody, but a cursory raid of his premises yielded nothing.†   (source)
  • But here was the uncle's son, this man, still unwed, and a wild beast for his desires, and he would not yield to opium easily as the two old ones had done and take out his lusts in dreams.†   (source)
  • Then Wang Lung's uncle took it greedily, for it was sweet to smell and a thing that only rich men used, and he took it and bought a pipe and he smoked the opium, lying all day upon his bed to do it.†   (source)
  • As the Old Mistress with her opium, so he with his lusts, and there was no making him understand there was not money for jade earrings for his favorites and not gold for their pretty hands.†   (source)
  • Now five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old, and if it gave to Wang Lung these others, it took away also that old dreamer, his uncle, whom he had almost forgotten except to see that he and his old wife were fed and clothed and had what they wished of opium.†   (source)
  • And I will wear new shoes and a new coat of black sateen and I will go into the kitchen where I spent my days and I will go into the great hall where the Old One sits with her opium, and I will show myself and my son to all of them.†   (source)
  • And he opened the jar of opium and the stuff was sticky and sweet smelling and Wang Lung's uncle took it and smelled of it, and he laughed and was pleased and he said, "Well now, I have smoked it a little but not often before this, for it is too dear, but I like it well enough.†   (source)
  • But he said nothing at all except that the land was thus and so and this tenant and that must be changed at the end of the year, and the other one, because he smoked opium and would not gather from the land what it could bear.†   (source)
  • Although he had given his son a wife and although he had bought slaves enough to serve them all, and although his uncle and his uncle's wife were given enough of opium for their pleasure all day, still there was no peace.†   (source)
  • The old lady had not had her dole of opium to the full for many days and she was like an old tigress in her hunger so that each day she sent for the agent and she cursed him and struck his face with her fan, screaming at him, "And are there not acres of land left, yet?" until he was beside himself.†   (source)
  • And collecting himself in great shame Wang Lung looked ahead of him, and upon a dais in the center of the room he saw a very old lady, her small fine body clothed in lustrous, pearly grey satin, and upon the low bench beside her a pipe of opium stood, burning over its little lamp.†   (source)
  • But on his way back to the gate in the wall, where Ching held a boat waiting for him, Wang Lung passed a shop where tobacco and opium are sold, and he went in to buy himself a little shredded tobacco to put in his water pipe in the evenings, and as the clerk had it on the scales, he said half unwillingly to the man, "And how much is your opium if you have it?"†   (source)
  • And then he persuaded his father and he allowed the tears to come into his eyes and he forced them upon his cheeks and did not wipe them away and he said again, "Well, and I try to be a good son and I do not gamble and smoke opium and I am content with the woman you have given me and I ask a little of you and it is all."†   (source)
  • He was in high good humor, then, although he concealed it, and he comforted his uncle's wife when she wept a little to hear of her son's going, and he gave her more opium and lit her pipe for her and he said, "Doubtless he will rise to be a military official and honor will come to us all through him."†   (source)
  • And his two sons in the house and Lotus he would not allow to touch the opium, saying as his excuse that it was too dear, but he urged it upon his uncle and upon his uncle's wife and son, and the courts were filled with the sweetish smell of the smoke, and the silver for this Wang Lung did not begrudge because it bought him peace.†   (source)
  • And he looked at his uncle and he saw that he grew thin as he smoked his opium and his skin was yellow with opium and he was bent and old and he spat blood when he coughed; and he looked at his uncle's wife and she was a cabbage of a woman who took eagerly to her opium pipe and was satisfied with it and drowsy; and these were little trouble enough now, and the opium had done what Wang Lung wished it would do.†   (source)
  • She raised herself then in her bed and stared at him again and she said wondering, "My son—it is my son—" and she looked at him for a long time and at last as though she did not know what else to do she proffered him her opium pipe, as if she could think of no greater good than this, and she said to the slave that tended her, "Prepare some for him."†   (source)
  • Then Wang Lung moved his uncle's wife into the town where she would not be alone, and he gave her a room at the end of a far court for her own, and he told Cuckoo to supervise a slave in the care of her, and the old woman sucked her opium pipe and lay on her bed in great content, sleeping day after day, and her coffin was beside her where she could see it for her comfort.†   (source)
  • "I had but a moment for private talk with the cook under whom I worked before," she replied, "but she said, 'This house cannot stand forever with all the young lords, five of them, spending money like waste water in foreign parts and sending home woman after woman as they weary of them, and the Old Lord living at home adding a concubine or two each year, and the Old Mistress eating enough opium every day to fill two shoes with gold."†   (source)
  • A day of it to the untried mind is like opium to the untried body.†   (source)
  • He was given opium and hypodermic injections of morphine, but this did not relieve him.†   (source)
  • The man who smuggled more opium and bagged more seals in his time than any loose Johnny now alive.†   (source)
  • "I don't want to get into the opium habit.'†   (source)
  • Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?†   (source)
  • The hideous hunger for opium began to gnaw at him.†   (source)
  • He was given a large dose of opium and became unconscious, but at noon his sufferings began again.†   (source)
  • As Dorian hurried up its three rickety steps, the heavy odour of opium met him.†   (source)
  • Something stupefying like the fumes of opium seized her.†   (source)
  • Those things, he was used to say, in his glorious opium-hours, would yet make little Kimball a man.†   (source)
  • We had also on board coir, jaggeree, ghee, cocoa-nuts, and a few cases of opium.†   (source)
  • I administered opium, and for another I extracted a tooth.†   (source)
  • Maggie's was a troublous life, and this was the form in which she took her opium.†   (source)
  • He has purchased opium of me for the last year and a half.†   (source)
  • It was a tin box of opium pills among the rubbish of the Jat's bundle.†   (source)
  • Some pipes full of opium lay upon the table.†   (source)
  • --Wild visions, opium-engendered, flitted, shadow-like, before me.†   (source)
  • He looked round the room and saw a bottle with some brandy in it, and the almost empty opium phial.†   (source)
  • "He has died," says the surgeon, "of an over-dose of opium, there is no doubt.†   (source)
  • She began now to ask what else she should do besides administering the opium.†   (source)
  • He had wasted some opium on a man who carried no money.†   (source)
  • That was because they had intoxicated her with fumes of hemp and opium.†   (source)
  • The thought was, that he had not told Mrs. Abel when the doses of opium must cease.†   (source)
  • Lord Henry elevated his eyebrows, and looked at him in amazement through the thin blue wreaths of smoke that curled up in such fanciful whorls from his heavy opium-tainted cigarette.†   (source)
  • He felt that they were not analogous to the fantastic and unreal dreams due to intoxication by hashish, opium or wine.†   (source)
  • Shelves of soap-cartons, teething-rings, garden-seeds, and patent medicines in yellow "packages-nostrums" for consumption, for "women's diseases"—notorious mixtures of opium and alcohol, in the very shop to which her husband sent patients for the filling of prescriptions.†   (source)
  • These desperate ones were the dregs of the city's cesspools, wretches who hid at night in the rain-soaked cellars of old ramshackle tenements, in "stale-beer dives" and opium joints, with abandoned women in the last stages of the harlot's progress—women who had been kept by Chinamen and turned away at last to die.†   (source)
  • I would willingly reintroduce to society the opium pipe of China or the Malayan kriss, but I am wholly and entirely without instruction in those infinitely more pernicious (besides being quite bleakly bourgeois) implements, the umbrella and the watch.†   (source)
  • The doctor came and gave him opium.†   (source)
  • There is wild talk of cannon aboard, and of strange raids and expeditions she may make, ranging from opium smuggling into the States and arms smuggling into China, to blackbirding and open piracy.†   (source)
  • The suite in which Devereux Warren was gracefully weakening and sinking was of the same size as that of the Señor Pardo y Cuidad Real—throughout this hotel there were many chambers wherein rich ruins, fugitives from justice, claimants to the thrones of mediatized principalities, lived on the derivatives of opium or barbitol listening eternally as to an inescapable radio, to the coarse melodies of old sins.†   (source)
  • She had the surest information that of late he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the farthest east of the City.†   (source)
  • After I'd given the stuff to bleach the blood and done certain other things to her, I gave the beast opium, and put her and the pillow she was sleeping on, on the apparatus.†   (source)
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