10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOPORIFEROUSLY»
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soporiferously in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
soporiferously and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Etymologicon magnum, or Universal etymological dictionary, ...
The first is applied to the Lethaean branch of Somnus, which lays asleep the
wakeful and the blameless Palinurus. This branch, says the Poet, had been
soporiferously soak'd, if I may so express it, in the powerful waters of the Stygian
lake.
From her gem-azure drapery, replete With balmy odors and enchanting dreams,
Fell mistlike, soporiferously sweet, O'er the departing Day her chastening gleams;
Her breath of fragrance for young seraphs meet, Mingled with the melody of ...
triumphant aunt, (by soporiferously trancing his vivid senses) ingeniously to play
either of her daughters upon him, for that or any other dance; so resorting to
conversation, as a foundering ship to her minute guns — his last resource — he ...
Edith Leslie (fict.name.), 1844
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The Bachelor of the Albany
The room was voluptuously and soporiferously furnished : it was the dean's
library, where many a theologian of celebrity continued to sleep in morocco
leather. The artificial twilight which Mrs. Bedford had made, before she sat down
to doze ...
Marmion Wilard Savage, 1848
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The Dimwit's Dictionary: Replace Lazy Writing with Elegant ...
There can beno complaint with being agreeable when agreeability is warranted,
but to soporiferously accept nicenessas a virtue, untarnished and true, is utterly
benighted. To becapable of expressing anger and indignation is thwarted by our
...
Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2012
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Smith's English-Latin Dictionary
... verbis, etc. sophistry : v. sopiiish. QSöphletlce, es, (= (Гофю-TtK^. sc. техуч),
only found in App. I)oRni Plat] sophisticate, sophisticated, etc. : V. TO
ADULTERATE, ADULTERATED, etc. soporiferous, soporiferously : v. soporific.
SOPOlific (adj.) ...
William Smith, Theophilus D. Hall, 1871
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Maynooth and Georgian Ireland
... Maynooth Diplomas, and take your seats, soporiferously dull, amongst the
clean or the unclean beasts of the Ark of Noah!" The Trustees, as usual, were not
flurried. A triennial visitation was held in June, 1813, and nothing remiss
discovered ...
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Residential interiors today: an insider's view from ...
Within the relaxing, soft-textured, neutral- colored environment occasional hard
textures and bright colors lend liveliness. In the attic bedroom, the sisal rug, the
sharp twiggy tree and exotic pillows save visitors from sinking soporiferously into
...
The railroad officials (administrators and publicists), soporiferously encomiastic,
herald the completion of a great undertaking and stress its social implications.
The passengers, (the public that benefits from biological studies) ride over the ...
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Collier's Illustrated Weekly
... in the pilots' cockpit and settled back with a yawn. Here was the perfect illusion
of motionless suspension in space which often rewards those who fly. Motors,
beautifully timed, hummed soporiferously ; the air was as still as eternal sleep ...
