Ms. Schwend's play "The Other Thing," at Second Stage uptown last year, turned thrilling after a somniferous first half.
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American Nogales, orderly and somniferous, pushes up against Mexican Nogales, an unruly metropolis of 23,000 souls where the Sinaloa cartel looms large.
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Still, it's a somniferous situation for the photographers, who camp out in their cars for hours at a time for a few seconds of activity.
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Along the way, there are encounters with somnolence-themed animals (Sleepy Snail, Heavy-Eyed Owl) whose pulverizingly dull soliloquies on the topic of tiredness serve to prepare Roger, and thus your child, for the final somniferous encounter with Uncle Yawn.
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In it stands a fully clothed man armed with a long mop—he is being held in place by another man, who grips him by the waist, so that the first man may angle his mop and position himself against the strong yet somniferous current and clean whatever scum we have left of ourselves off the sides. ♦
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It's her best for years."Daily Mirror, 22 October 1976 (p. 19) Robert Barnard: "Slightly somniferous mystery, written in the 'forties but published after Christie's death. Concerns a house where murder has been committed, bought (by the merest coincidence) by someone who as a child saw the body.
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This is due to presence of the natural product salicin which in turn may be hydrolyzed into salicylic acid. A synthetic derivative acetylsalicylic acid better known as aspirin is a widely used pain reliever. Its mechanism of action is inhibition of the cyclooxygenase (COX) enzyme. Another notable example is opium is extracted from the latex from Papaver somniferous (a flowering poppy plant).
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Opium poppy (Papaver somniferous) plant is the source of opium gum which contains several indispensable alkaloids such as morphine, codeine and thebaine. Morphine is the best analgesic in the world. In case of extreme and excruciating pain such as that of terminally ill cancer patients, nothing alleviates the suffering except morphine. Codeine is commonly used in manufacture of cough syrups.
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Séducteur by . (A corrupt old man tries to seduce a woman by urging her to take a hypnotic draught in her drink) Hypnotica was a class of somniferous drugs and substances tested in medicine of the 1890s and later, including: Urethan, Acetal, Methylal, Sulfonal, paraldehyde, Amylenhydrate, Hypnon, Chloralurethan and Ohloralamid or Chloralimid.Pacific Record of Medicine and Surgery - Volume 5 - Page 36 1890 Research about using medications to treat insomnia evolved throughout the last half of the 20th century. Treatment for insomnia in psychiatry dates back to 1869 when chloral hydrate was first used as a soporific.
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