Chinese tale two friends, wandering in the T'ien-t'ai mountains, are entertained by two beautiful girls, who feed them on a kind of haschisch, a drug made from hemp; and when they return they find that they have passed seven generations of ordinary men in the society of these ladies. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology] Reference
The enchantment which held me spell-bound, intoxicated my mind like fumes of haschisch, and I could hardly recognise myself in this fairy-world character; it required an effort on my part to assure myself of my own identity, and that I was not misled by a dream. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
But how beautiful, how sane, how uplifting it seemed, compared with the feverish haschisch dream in which she was now living. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land] Reference
This piece of art, which gave its name to the establishment, was the work of one of Mrs. St John Deloraine's friends, an artist of the highest promise, who fell an early victim to arrangements in haschisch and Irish whiskey. From Wordnik.com. [The Mark Of Cain] Reference
The young man whom the Assassins desired to train for a career of crime was introduced to the Grand Master of the Order and intoxicated with haschisch -- hence the name "Hashishiyīn" applied to the sect, from which the word assassin is derived. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Societies And Subversive Movements] Reference
At Oxford, I believe, his favourite form of intoxication had been haschisch; afterwards he gave up this somewhat elaborate experiment in visionary sensations for readier means of oblivion; but he returned to it, I remember, for at least one afternoon, in a company of which I had been the gatherer and of which I was the host. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons] Reference
The Goncourts 'vision of reality might almost be called an exaggerated sense of the truth of things; such a sense as diseased nerves inflict upon one, sharpening the acuteness of every sensation; or somewhat such a sense as one derives from haschisch, which simply intensifies, yet in a veiled and fragrant way, the charm or the disagreeableness of outward things, the notion of time, the notion of space. From Wordnik.com. [Figures of Several Centuries] Reference
According to Eights’ "Naturalist's Every Day Book," he was familiar with narcotics and opium, as well as "haschisch.". From Wordnik.com. [James Eights] Reference
A vague scent of rose-leaves and spices, put into the china bowls by the hands of ladies long since dead, while the clock downstairs sent up, every now and then, its faint silvery tune of forgotten days, filled the room; -- to do this is a special kind of voluptuousness, peculiar and complex and indescribable, like the half-drunkenness of opium or haschisch, and which, to be conveyed to others in any sense as I feel it, would require a genius, subtle and heady, like that of Baudelaire. From Wordnik.com. [A Phantom Lover] Reference
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