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单词 sleeping-draught
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sleeping-draught
C3. In the sense of ‘inducing sleep’, as sleeping cordial, sleeping cup, sleeping-draught, sleeping pill, sleeping powder, sleeping tablet, etc. Cf. sleeping adj. 2.
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1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvii. civ Mandragora is a slepinge herbe.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 218 By the meane of a sleapyng poyson or drinke that he gaue to his kepers..he escaped.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 243 Then gaue I her..A sleeping potion. View more context for this quotation
1664 Lady Hobart Let. 23 Mar. in M. M. Verney Mem. (1899) IV. ii. 53 Thay had no way but to give hur a sleping pell, & she slep all night.
1665 J. Davies tr. A. de Castillo Solórzano La Picara iii. 215 Some sleeping-powders, to be administred to Crispin.
1790 J. Woodforde Diary 17 Sept. (1927) III. 214 Her Child is dead..owing it is supposed to her [having] given him a Sleeping Pill.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough vii. 100 She gave her powerful Sweet without remorse, The sleeping Cordial.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. vii*. 106 Offer the sleeping cup to this holy man.
1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein II. vii. 228 To hand round to the company a sleeping-drink, or pillow-cup.
1838 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 97 Any sort of sleeping-draught, which had no opium in it.
c1900 H. A. Jones in M. R. Booth Eng. Plays of 19th Cent. (1969) II. 414 You'll find a sleeping powder in the second drawer... We must manage to give Lionel a little sleep tonight.
1934 G. B. Shaw Too True to be Good i. 42 It must be that new sleeping draught the doctor gave me.
1936 Time 19 Oct. 66/2 It was then that she attempted to find independence in an overdose of sleeping powder.
1938 W. S. Maugham Writer's Notebk. (1949) 300 He feels the moment can never be excelled and so takes an overdose of sleeping-pills.
1941 C. Milburn Diary 4 Oct. (1979) vii. 110 A sleeping tablet last night gave me a good rest.
1973 M. Amis Rachel Papers 30 Dozy afternoons slugging on opiate cough mixtures, sleeping-draughts dropped at noon, stolen handfuls of Valium, a sheet of aspirins before breakfast.
1976 H. Wilson Governance of Brit. iv. 105 I have never had a sleeping pill in No. 10. I have never needed one.
1977 K. O'Hara Ghost of Thomas Penry xv. 148 She'd taken a quadruple dose of sleeping tablets last night.
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