Sentence examples for opium from inspiring English sources

It's a world the fortune-teller knows well: over the years, she said she had often used her gift to help local people – locating a lost kilo of opium paste or comforting the girlfriends of slain traffickers.

This is also where the Parisian tradition of using opium in the name of artistic inspiration began.

This is a fairly accurate description of what opium or heroin does when it hits the opioid-receptors in the brain.

This appears to be a response to growing US demand, but could also reflect opium paste's portability compared with large bricks of marijuana.

The forecast was not based on second sight, however, but on conversations with local farmers looking forward to a bumper crop of opium poppies – and the cash bonanza it will bring.

That has been corrected to a "bumper crop of opium poppies".

Subsequently, India became the exporter of raw materials and foodstuffs – raw cotton and jute, coal, opium, rice, spice and tea – rather than manufactured goods.

Carrying packages of opium for him gave me a sense of CAPITAL LETTERS, MY SUBSERVIENCE A PURPOSE.

As such, his sensibility was gripped by opium, which was administered to him as a chewy paste by a certain Dr Moreau, who had travelled in the Orient and was curious about the effect of this narcotic on the cultivated western mind.

He made a point of never having smoked opium with artist Francis Picabia during their Paris heyday in the 1910s.

Its deep canyons and dense pine forests have harboured narcos and hidden plantations of marijuana and opium poppies for decades.