Sentence examples for sleeping draught from inspiring English sources
For the moment, however, I will order the hot buffalo wings with ranch dressing (which I will no doubt regret) from an establishment nearby, along with a sleeping draught of valerian drops in water; thus do we vainly attempt to forestall our ancient enemy, time.
'The superiority of the English made one wonder whether the Brazilians could have taken a sleeping draught with their lunches,' wrote the Guardian after a 4-2 victory against a side that went on to win the World Cup two years later (but played here without Pelé, Garrincha or Vavá).
Barney financed Drug detoxifications, which were never effective; she emerged from one nursing-home stay with a new dependency on the sleeping draught paraldehyde, then available over-the-counter.
Daddy never woke up from the sleeping draught you gave him.
At around midnight an officer comes in and gives him a strong sleeping draught.
Later, she is given a sleeping draught, and then a lethal injection.
The second time Gulliver wakes up in Lilliput, it is after passing out, having drunk wine laced with a sleeping-draught.
Shane tells me he wanted his room to be clean and tidy, even though he hates it because the beds are uncomfortable and the window blows a draught that stops him from sleeping properly.
When he wanted to sleep, he took a deep draught of whisky.
