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  • It was as if just being here had some kind of narcotic effect on me; like the loop itself was a drug—a mood enhancer and a sedative combined—and if I stayed too long, I'd never want to leave.†   (source)
  • "Once I inject the sedative, you'll be asleep in seconds.†   (source)
  • …but it doesn't work, because if I'm quiet and serious, everyone thinks I'm putting on a new act and I have to save myself with a joke, and then I'm not even talking about my own family, who assume I must be sick, stuff me with aspirins and sedatives, feel my neck and forehead to see if I have a temperature, ask about my bowel movements and berate me for being in a bad mood, until I just can't keep it up anymore, because when everybody starts hovering over me, I get cross, then sad, and…†   (source)
  • Behind that screen, sleeping his sedative off.†   (source)
  • I felt like I'd been slipped an overdose of a powerful sedative.†   (source)
  • But if they had been alerted to the plan, their anxiety could have counteracted the sedative.†   (source)
  • "It's a sedative."†   (source)
  • So we gave her a sedative.†   (source)
  • Anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, mild sedative, mild analgesic.†   (source)
  • Would a team of doctors come by with syringes and stab him with a sedative first?†   (source)
  • "Sedative," a stern voice commands.†   (source)
  • Waters boiled with mallow leaves and orange skins were mixed into the bath that lasted over an hour, and the effect on him was so sedative that he sometimes fell asleep in the perfumed infusion.†   (source)
  • I gave him a sedative.†   (source)
  • We keep his sedatives (the yellow pills) in the cupboard with the vitamins.†   (source)
  • She did, however, develop difficulties sleeping, and obtained from her pharmacist, a woman she trusted not to gossip, a sedative to take secretly before bed.†   (source)
  • Don Bernardo, drawn by the commotion from next door, arrived with the bottle of sedatives.†   (source)
  • Had he not given him a high enough dose of sedative?†   (source)
  • "The subject equates biology labs with overdosing on prescriptionstrength sedatives,"Vee said.†   (source)
  • Sedatives.†   (source)
  • Two of them flew into the room on white wings, shooing out Patrick and Judge Cormier, while they administered a sedative to Josie.†   (source)
  • I ALSO FOUND SOME VIALS OF SEDATIVE.†   (source)
  • He injected his wife with a sedative, then leaned down to repair the episiotomy.†   (source)
  • "And I need a sedative," she replied in a tired voice, stretching her back, "but you can't have everything.†   (source)
  • Maybe you can just finish this conversation with yourself and we'll come back later, with, urn, some bigger weapons, and possibly some sedatives."†   (source)
  • He worked a sedative effect on the whole barn.†   (source)
  • I argued with the nurse who tried to give me a sedative before my operation, because I was sure they were going to amputate my leg.†   (source)
  • Just remember that she might still be a little doped up, though, since I had to administer some sedatives so she'd be calm for the X-ray and to help with the pain."†   (source)
  • Slava, was that dose of sedative for a horse, by any chance?†   (source)
  • Sedatives followed by enough caffeine to wake a horse, if he remembered right.†   (source)
  • As Wade Lanier plowed ahead in a voice so low and dry that it was practically a sedative, Jake caught his mind drifting away to the holidays.†   (source)
  • Sex as a sedative?†   (source)
  • This was as far as he'd got when the flood of sedative hit.†   (source)
  • In the unlikely event that this should fail, a doomsday button follows the sedative with a lethal dose of nerve toxin that kills in three to five seconds.†   (source)
  • The only explanation was that the administration put sedatives in the chocolate chip cookies.†   (source)
  • Kennedy, you need a sedative," a nearby doctor tells her.†   (source)
  • Here, I have a sedative for you.†   (source)
  • She was speaking Hebrew, and her voice was heavy with sedative.†   (source)
  • NURSE: We had to give him a sedative or two, Doctor.†   (source)
  • Sedative.†   (source)
  • During the several days while the search for Sylvia's head went on, Sophie was at his side in the St. Albans house almost constantly, fetching him sedatives, brewing him tea, patiently listening to his dirge for his wife.†   (source)
  • But he was resting under sedatives in Amarillo curing his prostatitis.†   (source)
  • The next day they took more X rays, and they kept him quiet with sedatives for three days.†   (source)
  • Ben Hodge's mind was full of memories and pain, not separate instants and not a flow of time either, but all his life without walls or progression, like a small idea of eternity, or like the state sometimes induced in very sick people by powerful sedatives.†   (source)
  • Touching the peak of his red-topped cap, he asked politely: "Would the young lady like a sedative?†   (source)
  • You smoke a little more every morning and drink a little more every afternoon and need a little more sedative every night.†   (source)
  • There is, sometimes, a considerable period before a sedative takes effect.   (source)
    sedative = drug that calms or puts to sleep
  • The brandy was administered to the woman and shortly afterwards her husband and Dr. Armstrong assisted her up to bed where Dr. Armstrong gave her a sedative.   (source)
  • I've given her a sedative to take.   (source)
  • A harmless sedative.   (source)
  • They were sedatives that would, as he put it, "take the edge off Marley's anxiety."†   (source)
  • He looked at the man's wag face, slack now from the sedatives.†   (source)
  • She looks toward the doorway as the sedative sets in, making everything blur at the edges.†   (source)
  • When it was over, she lay nearly unconscious as the sedatives took their full effect.†   (source)
  • She had given him more sedatives in the hope they might relax his stomach muscles.†   (source)
  • Before leaving, he'd administered a sedative and insisted that there be no more visitors tonight.†   (source)
  • The sedative would wear off soon and the man would discover his room.†   (source)
  • I'd tell you to take a sedative and tomorrow off, but you'll do neither.†   (source)
  • I gave the senator a sedative, and I cleaned up the mess.†   (source)
  • "We should give him another shot of sedative," said Dorothy.†   (source)
  • "She won't take a sedative, she won't explain.†   (source)
  • In case something went wrong, he had loaded more sedative into the syringe than he would need.†   (source)
  • "If you're having trouble sleeping, take your authorized sedative.†   (source)
  • Dorothy got a shot of sedatives into him, but it still took them an hour to get him loaded in.†   (source)
  • I could give you a sedative and ….†   (source)
  • Our doctors and nurses will give you a sedative to calm your nerves and something to dull the discomfort.†   (source)
  • The next day, however, when they sighted the cliffs of Caracoli, his fever had disappeared and his spirits were elated, because in the marasmus of the sedatives he had resolved once and for all that he did not give a damn about the brilliant future of the telegraph and that he would take this very same boat back to his old Street of Windows.†   (source)
  • I remember Jaimito trying to hush me, one of the doctors coming in with a sedative and a glass of water.†   (source)
  • "I want to ask her something" When Dede explained how Patria had finally settled down with a sedative, that maybe it was better if she didn't come to the phone, Minerva point blank asked, "Do you know if she saved any of the kids' tennis shoes?"†   (source)
  • Don Bernardo kindly brought over some of Dona Belen's sedatives, and indiscriminately, Dede gave everyone a small dose, even the babies, even Tono and Fela, and of course, her boys.†   (source)
  • I took a sedative and went to bed.†   (source)
  • Then give me a stronger sedative.†   (source)
  • It was a cocktail of three drugs: Sodium Pentothal, a sedative to put the inmate to sleep; Pavulon, to paralyze the muscular system and stop breathing; and potassium chloride, to stop the heart.†   (source)
  • Lately, KSB-22-09 is experiencing memory lapses and spells of paranoia, which are thought to be related to the long-term use of the sedative that he receives before bed each night.†   (source)
  • Natalie accepted the notepad and a pen and wrote out her wish list of supplies: antibiotics, syringes, surgical instruments, gloves, suture material, a stethoscope, IV bags and solution, a chest tube, clamps, pain medication, sedatives, gauze, and plaster bandages and fiberglass casting tape for immobilizing fractured limbs.†   (source)
  • But God help you if you aren't given a strong sedative along with it, because then you are awake, alert, but unable to twitch or even blink.†   (source)
  • Now, as she sat in the quiet dark of a hospital room where her daughter was sleeping off the effects of a sedative given to her by the admitting doctor, Alex felt the same way.†   (source)
  • Once a monkey was down, Jerry gave it a shot of a sedative called Rompun, which put it into a deep sleep.†   (source)
  • I also took her to a doctor who bandaged her feet — she bruised them badly running from Lin — and he gave her a sedative.†   (source)
  • She was not expected to regain full consciousness until eight A.M. My hypothesis would be that, as we don't fully understand the properties of Immortality as yet, what was left in her system counteracted the sedative.†   (source)
  • Thanks to the sedatives, so much of this seemed unreal-as if she were walking on the spongy floor of a dream-but the moment she thought of Matt, it became authentic and raw.†   (source)
  • He waited outside in the forest while another member of the team put on a space suit and went inside and gave the monkeys massive shots of sedative, which put them to sleep forever.†   (source)
  • If any of the three were to turn suddenly violent or exhibit any unusual behavior, either of the other two could, with the flip of a switch, administer sufficient sedatives through the intravenous feeds to drop 89-58 into a virtually instant, deep, and powerless sleep.†   (source)
  • Logan loaded a syringe with sedative and stuffed some other things he thought he might need into the pockets of his parka.†   (source)
  • Harry gave Pilgrim a hefty shot of sedative and handed Annie a box of the stuff along with some needles in case of emergencies.†   (source)
  • After two hours of bruising struggle and three times the amount of sedative Harry felt happy giving, they got Pilgrim into the trailer and drove him back to the clinic.†   (source)
  • He was calling out and his voice was cracked from all the noise he'd been making since the last lot of sedatives had worn off.†   (source)
  • They had kept Pilgrim on sedatives for the next twenty-four hours by which time they thought he had stabilized enough to stand the four-hour trip over here to Cornell.†   (source)
  • On and on the voice went, a gentle monologue, lulling, soothing, murmurously infusing her with a sense of repose; it was a soft refrain so sedative indeed that soon she was no longer even embarrassed that the hands of this stranger were greenly stained with her own sour juices, and somehow she regretted that the one thought she had expressed to him, when she had first opened her eyes, had been the impossibly foolish Oh, I think I'm going to die.†   (source)
  • All of them were kept turned on except the clock-radio in Peyton's room where the child, her eyes lubricated and bandaged, slept with the help of Dan Gunn's sedatives.†   (source)
  • I cried, and I screamed some dreadful things at Uncle Ellsworth, and he had to call a doctor to give me a sedative, and then weeks afterward I fainted on the street one day without any reason, which was really disgraceful.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, someone had found intact a supply of narucopon, a Japanese sedative, and he gave it to many who were in pain.†   (source)
  • I don't want a sedative.†   (source)
  • I will mix you a sedative.†   (source)
  • They replied that they would enquire, and administered a sedative.†   (source)
  • The sedative carried him just as far as that and then he collapsed again.†   (source)
  • You are of an excitable temper and want a sedative.†   (source)
  • Diet, that is all; sedatives, emollients, dulcification.†   (source)
  • Bessie now endeavoured to persuade her to take a sedative draught: she succeeded with difficulty.†   (source)
  • And yet this Odette, from whom all this evil sprang, was no less dear to him, was, on the contrary, more precious, as if, in proportion as his sufferings increased, there increased at the same time the price of the sedative, of the antidote which this woman alone possessed.†   (source)
  • I saw that turbulent emotions possessed her, so I asked what I thought would be some sedative questions about her little girl.†   (source)
  • Believe me," he went on with emphasis, "the waters of that bay—more Breton than Norman—may exert a sedative influence, though even that is of questionable value, upon a heart which, like mine, is no longer unbroken, a heart for whose wounds there is no longer anything to compensate.†   (source)
  • …should be applied as will best counteract the effect of each poison: emetics in any case, to remove as much as possible of the noxious substance, combined with oils and mucilaginous drinks to soothe and protect the stomach in the case of irritants; stimulants, such as spirits, ammonia, or strong coffee to rouse from the stupor of the narcotics; and sedative drugs, which are perhaps in themselves poisons, to counteract the over stimulation of the nerves caused by the convulsant poisons.†   (source)
  • The lull had a sedative and philosophical influence on Joe, who followed me out into the road to say, as a parting observation that might do me good, "On the Rampage, Pip, and off the Rampage, Pip:—such is Life!"†   (source)
  • The drought which Reuben administered was of a sedative and narcotic quality, and secured the patient sound and undisturbed slumbers.†   (source)
  • This skilful see-saw of Mr Dorrit and Mrs Merdle, so that each of them sent the other up, and each of them sent the other down, and neither had the advantage, acted as a sedative on Mr Dorrit's cough.†   (source)
  • The church is calm enough, I am sure; but it might be a steam-power loom in full action, for any sedative effect it has on me.†   (source)
  • Having indulged a while in this sedative, she raised her bent body, took the pipe from her lips, and while gazing steadily at the fire, said very deliberately — "You are cold; you are sick; and you are silly."†   (source)
  • Being much afraid of killing his patients, Charles, in fact only prescribed sedatives, from time to time and emetic, a footbath, or leeches.†   (source)
  • His displeasure was expressed in broken sentences, partly muttered to himself, partly addressed to the domestics who stood around; and particularly to his cupbearer, who offered him from time to time, as a sedative, a silver goblet filled with wine—"Why tarries the Lady Rowena?"†   (source)
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