All 4 Uses of
opium
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- 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.†
Chpt 1 *
- There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.†
Chpt 16
- The hideous hunger for opium began to gnaw at him.†
Chpt 16
- As Dorian hurried up its three rickety steps, the heavy odour of opium met him.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(opium) an addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy