"Sleeping draught" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Tatho were no sleeping draught for me that night. I began to think that I had made somewhat a mistake in wrapping myself up so entirely in my government of Yucatan, and not contriving to keep more in touch with events that were ...
— The Lost Continent • C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
... Sir. Haven't done for days till last night. I went off beautiful quite early, and then the new nurse come and woke me to give me my sleeping draught. That finished it for the night. Strange thing, sleep. There's no sense about it. Take Bill Hawkins now, a pal of mine in B Company. He was hit and took to hospital. Not serious at all. 'Me for a rest cure,' he says. But he was in that hospital for weeks and weeks, getting worse ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 5, 1916 • Various
... and a recklessness far superior to O'Donoghue's or mine. Lalage, so I heard afterward, spent an hour and a half denouncing us and devoted about two-thirds of the time to Vittie. His aunts must have had a trying time with him that night unless McMeekin came to their rescue with an unusually powerful sleeping draught. ...
— Lalage's Lovers - 1911 • George A. Birmingham
... knows—one never knows—" muttered the Alderman, extinguishing the two large candles of his niece, and substituting his own little handlamp in their place. "This broad light only invites to wakefulness, while the dim taper I leave is good as a sleeping draught. Kiss me, wilful one, and draw thy curtains close, for the negroes will soon rise to load the periagua, that they may go up with the tide to the city. The noise of the chattering black ...
— The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas • James Fenimore Cooper
... a sleeping draught, and I slept far into the next day to awake more unhappy than ever, obsessed with self-contempt ...
— Man and Maid • Elinor Glyn |
