The god Morpheus, the presiding deity of the dome painted by Lebrun, had extended his influence over the adjoining rooms, and showered down his most sleep-inducing poppies upon the master of the house.
By dint of entreaties, threats, commands, he succeeded in inducing a sentinel to speak to one of the subalterns, who went and told the major.
Another method ofinducing sleep is delivered in a very ingenious work lately published by Dr.
Which by inducing a quiescence on those glandular parts, that are affected, prevents a greater quantity of blood from being protruded forwards, than the veins are capable of absorbing.
Chatelherault for the earl of Arran, in the hope of inducing him to resign the regency.
There was great difficulty in inducing the yamen to take action, but at last the wife was arrested.
Forstner had told his men to beware, and warned them against listening to French foreign agents, whom the Germans claimed were inducing French soldiers to desert in order to join the French legion.
If there is one talent which the Germans superlatively lack, it is that of ruling over other peoples and inducing other people to become part of their nation.
The presence of Austria, and the apparent impossibility of inducing the pope to submit to any government but his own, seemed to preclude all hope of making Italy into a true nation.
He broke up the Triple Alliance by inducing Charles II of England to conclude a treaty which arranged that England should help France in a new war against the Dutch.
They did their part in inducing him to undertake the conquest of France, and (in 1340) we find him adding the fleur de lis of France to the lions of the English royal arms.
They skillfully arranged to secure a certain hold upon the growing kingdom by inducing Robert Guiscard, the most famous of the Norman leaders, to recognize the pope as his feudal lord; in 1059 he became the vassal of Nicholas II.
Turgot succeeded in inducing the king to abolish the guilds and the forced labor on the roads, but the decrees were revoked after Turgot's dismissal.
Luther had no patience with an institution which seemed to him to be leading souls to destruction by inducing men to rely upon their good works.
Sheikh bin Nasib gave up all hope of inducing me to remain another day, and he has gone away, with a promise to write to Seyd Burghash to tell him how obstinate I am; and that I am determined to be killed.
The only way that Archie can be induced to throw over Mrs. Mowbray and Shakespeare and suchlike follies, is by inducing him to form a stronger attachment elsewhere.
By bringing them to their senses she meant inducing them to ask the right girls to marry them.
The use of drugs for the purpose of inducing sleep should be avoided as much as possible.
Faintness often proceeds from indigestion, flatulence inducing pressure on the heart.
New fertilizers were introduced and kept for sale in all the country towns, the facility for obtaining them thus inducing a general consumption.
It was further provided that whoever used any language or became instrumental in bringing into the State any paper, book or pamphlet inducing discontent should suffer practically the same penalty.
In order to prevent this, Major Gyllich rode out among them, and, by repeated assurances that they were now free and would not be brought back to slavery again, succeeded ininducing them to return to their homes.
The principal difficulty was, however, in inducing others to take a part in this strange whim.
He soon succeeded ininducing a number of young men and maidens to favour the joke, and to lend themselves to it.
The stupendous hissing and noise, however, had the effect of momentarily arresting the savages, and inducing each man to seek the shelter of the nearest shrub.
A mode of inducing fertility in a barren Swan’s-egg pear-tree trained upon a wall, is described by the Rev.
If such a capability were to obtained, it would be byinducing plants to ripen their seeds in winter.
The fleet, however, sailed north, in the hope of inducing La Motte to come out for a battle in the open.
Every one having gone away, we resumed our accustomed solitude, and solitude inducing reflection, we discovered two important things.
To place the coffin on an ox was impracticable; there was no inducing a Thibetian guide to allow one of their animals to carry a corpse, much less the corpse of a Chinese.
She had quitted the circle of orderly, dull uprightness, of sleep-inducing conversations around the tea-table under the auspices of the old servants of mademoiselle's elderly acquaintances.
That was all there was to it: mademoiselle was sure of it; and as she knew the girl's obstinate nature and had no hope of inducing her to change her mind, she said nothing to her.
Germinie, trembling at the thought of the blows that awaited the child at his mother's hands, prayed and begged and implored; she succeeded at last in inducing the abbé to forgive the culprit.
Dolby afterwards told me that he had experienced the greatest difficulty in inducing Twain to appear at all.
Feints are movements which threaten or simulate attacks and are made with a view to inducing an opening or parry that exposes the desired point of attack.
The captain was anxious to acclimatize pigs in New Caledonia, but he had the greatest difficulty in inducing the natives to accept a hog and a sow.
We first resorted to emetics, and afterwards we succeeded in inducing perspiration, which relieved us greatly.
Nowhere else in Scripture do we find any such doctrine, that a man may cover his own sins by inducing another sinner to repent.
There is no more devilish act that a human being can perform than that of inducing others to believe that what is morally hideous and deadly is "pleasant to the eye and good for food.
Now Loeb and others have succeeded in certain forms--even in a vertebrate like the frog--in inducing development in unimpregnated ova.
But we are still some way off any assurance that the main object of the spermatozoon in inducing the development of the egg is this surface alteration.
Thus circumstanced, the Australian settler has surely sufficient reasons for inducing him to make himself familiar with the management and diseases of the animal, on which he is placing his principal dependence.
Even simple scratches are often fatal in these over-fat animals, from inducing gangrene.
Frozen grass is also a common exciting cause, rapidly inducing inflammation by lowering the temperature of the stomachs so very much as to arrest digestion, and lead to its acting as an irritant.
As the form of this sheep has lately been much improved, by inducing a short and round carcass, they have acquired the name of short sheep, in contradistinction to the Cheviots, which are termed long sheep.
These gradually extend, inducing a premature failure of the wool.
Lalande and de Baville, in order to consult them as to the best means of inducing the Camisards to lay down their arms.
This plan presented, especially to Baron d'Aygaliers, two apparently insurmountable difficulties, for it could only be carried out by inducing the king to relax his rigorous measures and by inducing the Camisards to submit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inducing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cogent; evocative; persuasion
