All 8 Uses of
opium
in
Bleak House
- Foul and filthy as the room is, foul and filthy as the air is, it is not easy to perceive what fumes those are which most oppress the senses in it; but through the general sickliness and faintness, and the odour of stale tobacco, there comes into the lawyer's mouth the bitter, vapid taste of opium.†
Chpt 10-12
- He has purchased opium of me for the last year and a half.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- "He has died," says the surgeon, "of an over-dose of opium, there is no doubt.†
Chpt 10-12
- There are some worthless articles of clothing in the old portmanteau; there is a bundle of pawnbrokers' duplicates, those turnpike tickets on the road of poverty; there is a crumpled paper, smelling of opium, on which are scrawled rough memoranda—as, took, such a day, so many grains; took, such another day, so many more— begun some time ago, as if with the intention of being regularly continued, but soon left off.†
Chpt 10-12
- So the sensation dies off for the time; and the unmoved policeman (to whom a little opium, more or less, is nothing), with his shining hat, stiff stock, inflexible great-coat, stout belt and bracelet, and all things fitting, pursues his lounging way with a heavy tread, beating the palms of his white gloves one against the other and stopping now and then at a street-corner to look casually about for anything between a lost child and a murder.†
Chpt 10-12
- Here's a man unknown, proved to have been in the habit of taking opium in large quantities for a year and a half, found dead of too much opium.†
Chpt 10-12
- Here's a man unknown, proved to have been in the habit of taking opium in large quantities for a year and a half, found dead of too much opium.†
Chpt 10-12
- Now do they set forth how it will doubtless be remembered that some time back a painful sensation was created in the public mind by a case of mysterious death from opium occurring in the first floor of the house occupied as a rag, bottle, and general marine store shop, by an eccentric individual of intemperate habits, far advanced in life, named Krook; and how, by a remarkable coincidence, Krook was examined at the inquest, which it may be recollected was held on that occasion at the…†
Chpt 31-33
Definition:
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(opium) an addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy