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an addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy

Opium provided her only relief.
David McCullough -- John Adams

"I don't want to get into the opium habit.'
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
Anything... opium, hemp, somnar, lethettes... I've got to wake up, Duffy.
Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
It is the tiny amount of opium in paregoric that gives him some ease, or so he tells himself.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
Whatever your name may be, young man— fine, I knew it, but have since forgotten—depravity lies not in cocaine, not in opium, not in vice as such.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
And each time she returned, she remained in her bedroom, sitting all day like a Buddha, smoking her opium, talking softly to herself.
Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club
And in its sky was such a sun as no opium eater could have imagined in his wildest dreams.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
The opium taste of her mouth.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
I meant to swallow the tablets and drink the opium as soon as the Germans tried to open my door.
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
Something stupefying like the fumes of opium seized her.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
Such as are wrought on by these persuasions either starve themselves of their own accord, or take opium, and by that means die without pain.
Thomas More -- Utopia
He was given opium and hypodermic injections of morphine, but this did not relieve him.
Leo Tolstoy -- The Death of Ivan Ilych
I am glad to have drunk water so long, for the same reason that I prefer the natural sky to an opium-eater's heaven.
Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
They import raw opium in the sugar packets.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
If he found out about the opium, she could just blame it on the horrible headaches she'd been having lately.
Sarah J. Maas -- Throne of Glass
I administered opium, and for another I extracted a tooth.
Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
A day of it to the untried mind is like opium to the untried body.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
O, said he, you had better put in at Macao, where you may buy China wares as cheap as at Nanquin, and sell your opium at a greater advance.
Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe
The doctor came and gave him opium.
Willa Cather -- My Antonia
Some people said Miss Eckhart killed her mother with opium.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

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