Papaverous

//pəˈpævəɹəs//

"Papaverous" in a Sentence (8 examples)

Now instead of a smell of Delight our Mandrakes afford a papaverous and unpleasant odor, whether in the leaf or apple, as is discoverable in their simplicity or mixture.

The morphology of stamens and carpels of the crucifer flower as well as their anatomy bears testimony to a papaverous ancestry.

The mountains are dry and brown and so remote that not even helicopters fly overhead, spraying their poison over papaverous hillsides.

He reduced the chaos of Smith to some order, and his style is sufficiently classical, but not the less prolix and papaverous on that account.

"Then," said Mr. Eupheme, smiling benevolently, "the papaverous influences of Somnus or Morpheus deprived you of the advantage of ascertaining the modus operandi used in conducting an examination."

Was it prudently considered that the dullest of critics can read only as long as his eyes are open? and that the function of judge must incessantly bring under his congnisance papaverous volumes, with which only a superhuman endowment of vigilance could hope successfully to contend?

These were sometimes stinging like the preachers at Paul's Cross, often eloquent like Bossuet, and the louder the Doctor's flock snored the greater satisfaction his conscience; indeed it was safest to be hard on them when they were asleep. At any rate he it was probably first diffused in Trinity the papaverous air which still exists there.

But why are the heaven-bathed souls consumed by the yearning to sleep, to embrace the narcotic, papaverous hymns of Orpheus to Night and Sleep, to leave being for becoming?

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