All 20 Uses
opium
in
The Bonesetter's Daughter
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- A little opium, a little herbs, and a special kind of dragon bone we dig out from a secret place only our family knows.†
Chpt 2.1 *opium = a powerful narcotic
- Since the girl was to be a second wife and not a first, couldn't her dowry be a jar of opium and a jar of dragon bones?†
Chpt 2.1
- In one of the carts was the dowry, the jar of opium and the jar of dragon bones, the last of his supply.†
Chpt 2.1
- One group of girls held up signs that were connected to Old Fate: opium, slaves, the buying of charms.†
Chpt 2.4
- They cured the opium smokers.†
Chpt 2.4
- Much of their fortune has been drained away by opium.†
Chpt 2.4
- His mother began feeding him opium.†
Chpt 2.4
- Then Chang took another wife, who used to be the girlfriend of a warlord who had been trading opium for coffins.†
Chpt 2.4
- And Chang knew this could happen, because he had seen other men who were missing parts of their body for failing to pay their opium debts.†
Chpt 2.4
- This household is a misery of shouting and madness, a constant search for money for more opium.†
Chpt 2.4
- His greed for opium is greater than any fear that his wife could be run through with a bayonet.†
Chpt 2.5
- Still eating the opium?†
Chpt 2.5
- "You talk about kindness, you say we should have pity"—and before I could tell her what I really thought of her, I said, "and now you want to send my sister back to an opium addict?"†
Chpt 2.5
- He bought opium for himself instead.†
Chpt 2.5
- He left, and soon we smelled the smoke of his opium clouds.†
Chpt 2.6
- If you ask me, the Flowers part of their name stood for the flowers that made opium.†
Chpt 2.7
- The only way to get rid of him for a few days is to give him money for his opium.†
Chpt 2.7
- And it occurred to her now that GaoLing might have also censored the parts that dealt with her own secrets, her marriage to the opium addict, for instance.†
Chpt 3.2
- He was hooked on opium.†
Chpt 3.2
- They put the Chang father in jail and beat a confession from him for owning many businesses, cheating people, and trading in opium.†
Chpt 3.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(opium) a powerful drug made from a type of poppy; relieves pain and aids sleep, but highly addictive and dangerous when abused recreationally
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)