They dispose to sopor, lethargy, and even insanity. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
I'm sure they even managed to help some of the regulars shake off their seemingly implacable offseason sopor. From Wordnik.com. [Pounding The Rock] Reference
Before the nailing to the cross took place, a medicated cup of vinegar mixed with gall and myrrh (the sopor) was given, for the purpose of deadening the pangs of the sufferer. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
A chump of the evums, upshoot of picnic or stupor out of sopor, Cave of Kids or Hyma-nian Glattstoneburg, denary, danery, donnery. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
A state of sopor, which had lasted a day and a half; there had been delirium for two or three days, during which time the child had never had a clear moment. From Wordnik.com. [Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms] Reference
Latin: sopor sond = sleep soundly/deeply. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: PATAPOUFS! ANTHROPOPHAGES!] Reference
Piger his labante langore oculos sopor operit. From Wordnik.com. [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference
Quale sopor fessis in gramine, quale per herbam. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
Quale sopor fessis in gramine, quale per æstum. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series] Reference
Sorprendióme el sopor. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Spanish Lyrics] Reference
quonam hic usque sopor uacuique modestia lecti. From Wordnik.com. [The Marriage of Stella and Violentilla] Reference
▓▓ sopor aeternus - beautiful torn ▓▓. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
2 Nam ubi domi sola sum, sopor manus calvitur. From Wordnik.com. [Gryll Grange] Reference
442) -- mutat agros fluviumque vias; suus alligat ingens cuncta sopor, recoquit fessos aetate parentes, datque alias sine lege colus. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference
Any one who knows, how malignant measles, unassisted by art, are accompanied by deep-seated irritation of the mucous membrane of the stomach and bowels; how they lead to diarrhœa; to sopor; how they threaten life by long-lasting and troublesome putrid and typhoid fevers; and how, if they do not terminate fatally, they result in slow convalescence, and sometimes in chronic maladies for life, will admit, on seeing the diarrhœa cease; on beholding the quiet sleep which patients enjoy; the pleasant and general perspiration; the return of appetite; the increase of strength, and the complete disappearance of all putrid and typhoid symptoms, that Apis has indeed triumphed over the disease. From Wordnik.com. [Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent] Reference
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