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soporific
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    By October San Piedro had slipped off its summer reveler's mask to reveal a torpid, soporific dreamer whose winter bed was made of wet green moss.†  (source)
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    I discovered Emerson's soporific qualities the hard way, by falling asleep with my face in the book, drooling all over an essay called "Self-Reliance" and having the vending-machine dream for the sixth time that week.†  (source)
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    Soporific.†  (source)
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    Even when we finally retired for the night, the inevitable Miss Gryce was still my companion: we had only a short end of candle in our candlestick, and I dreaded lest she should talk till it was all burnt out; fortunately, however, the heavy supper she had eaten produced a soporific effect: she was already snoring before I had finished undressing.†  (source)
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    The judge liked to mull things soporifically.†  (source)
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    The arguments acted, however, on the nervous system of the Doctor, like so many soothing soporifics, and by the time his aged companion was disposed to lay his head on his pack, Obed, refreshed by his recent mental joust, was in a condition to seek his natural rest, without enduring the torments of the incubus, in the shapes of Teton warriors and bloody tomahawks.†  (source)
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    One of his officers then broke the soporific silence of the tent.†  (source)
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    He was a man of high professional standards, a careful and deliberate, exacting judge who held himself to the letter of the law, however soporifically.†  (source)
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    When I pour it on my hair, I feel a sticky cold like dry ice, then a soporific heat.†  (source)
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    Eerily, the taped music comes on over the intercom, saccharine, soporific.†  (source)
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    His eyes did not leave the patron's face while his velvet voice rose passionately above the soporific air of the siesta.†  (source)
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    Harry and Ron had so far managed to scrape passes in this subject only by copying Hermione's notes before exams; she alone seemed able to resist the soporific power of Binns's voice.†  (source)
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    The distraction, slight though it was, freed Roran's mind from the soporific influence.†  (source)
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