In the morning I rose, pale and dispirited; my head ached; my body was so debilitated that I was obliged to remain on the sofa all the day, dearly paying for my first essay at opium eating.
His description of those victims to sensuality is very striking, and is enough to cure any man of common sense of wishing to become an opium eater.
I took some opium pills at once, and Graoul came in early this morning with some hot water, which I drank.
So is Tudway, to whom I have given various opium pills and camphoradine.
Some fellows in their unwillingness to enter hospital stuff down dozens of leaden opium pills, various powders, much castor oil with chlorodyne and camphoradyne in between.
Was I, who had cast many a wistful, doubtful glance at my opium bottle, to begin now to weigh chances and to cavil at danger.
I gave him a powerful dose of opium in his coffee that for a few hours at least his anguish may be deadened.
The action of theopium was visibly renewing his powers.
On the floor stood a hookah, and on a small inlaid table were a couple of curious little objects which I knew to be opium pipes.
I have danced in a Paris theatre and I have sold flowers in Rome; I have had my box at the Opera and I have filled opium pipes in a den at San Francisco!
It was an opium syndicate, you understand,"--turning again to the Assistant Commissioner.
Opium is to be had there and card-playing goes on, and I won't swear that you couldn't get liquor.
Then, readjusting the hideous grey wig, she went up the steps and passed through the doorway into the den of the opium smokers.
Blank' and the late Sir Brian were clients of the opium syndicate!
And speaking of opium, one is restrained from speaking too harshly of the habit by a recollection of the fact that the opium trade was forced upon the "Heathen Chinee" by a great Christian nation.
After watching them work and observing the conditions under which they live, one can scarcely begrudge them whatever comfort they can find in the dreams of Heaven which they draw from their opium pipes.
There is also a suggestion of the Orient in the joss house and opiumden of the Chinese in the steerage.
In some places the sale of opium is a government monopoly, while in others it is farmed out to the highest bidder.
In all of the Malay states the opium vice is turned to account by the rulers.
In the afternoon we went to see the opium godown, and then F.
It was here in Chinatown, in San Francisco, that I was brought face to face with the havoc that is made through the opium trade and the use of the pernicious drug in eating and smoking.
You can even, with a certain degree of caution, indulge in the opium pipe, the joy of the Chinaman.
But one must read the graphic pages of Thomas De Quincey in his "Confessions of an English Opium Eater," in order to know what are the joys and what the torments of him who is addicted to the use of the pernicious drug.
The seeds are sown in November and December, in rows which are eighteen inches apart, and four-fifths of the opium used in China is the home-product, though it was not so formerly.
He says the Chinese have good memories, that they will never forget the manner in which opium came to them, and the opium war of 1839.
The evil became so great that in 1839 a royal proclamation was put forth threatening English opium ships with confiscation if they did not keep out of Chinese waters.
He next held the bowl of the pipe over the lamp until the opium frizzled.
Still the work of smuggling went on and the result was what is known as the Opium War, which was ended in 1842 by the treaty of Nanking.
He wound the dipper round and round until the opium was roasted and had a brown colour.
Ivory smuggling is said to be practiced in that part of the world, as opium smuggling is in some parts of America.
Tetanos is also another disease peculiar to Africa, and is a kind of spasm and convulsive contraction, for which opium is the usual remedy.
Opium is considered an efficacious medicine in this disease, and is administered with great perseverance, accompanied by frequent fomentations.
He observed that he had never taken either wine or opium in the course of his life.
I proved him the truth of what I had said by telling him that opium produced the same results as wine, but more powerfully, and consequently Mahomet ought to have forbidden the use of it.
His next appearance in public life was at a big cantonment in Upper India, and he was then telling fortunes with the help of three leaden dice, a very dirty old cloth, and a little tin box of opium pills.
But Dana Da was dying of whiskey and opium in the Englishman's godown, and had small heart for honors.
He told better fortunes when he was allowed half a bottle of whiskey; but the things which he invented on the opium were quite worth the money.
Opium doesn't tell on him scarcely at all; but white and black suffer a good deal.
Very good," said Dana Da, upon whom the whiskey and the opium were beginning to tell.
The revenue of Siam has been mostly derived from the so-termed gambling and opium farms.
There are retiring-rooms for the opium smokers and separate places for serving refreshments.
I knew then, as well as I know it now, that you boys had been detained in the hope of keeping us all out of Peking, so I bought some strong opium on the way and doped the pipes of the guards after I mixed with them.
How could this happen, you will naturally ask, if opiumis such a deadly narcotic as some medical men proclaim it to be?
After taking his opium for a long time, such a degree of costiveness would sometimes supervene, as seemed almost to defy the combined powers of both nature and art.
From this distinguished opium eater, and from his family, I learned two things: First, that Solomon was right when he spoke of the certainty of punishment, even though long deferred.
Almost at the next door from me was an opium eater.
When he was out of opium and could not obtain any, I have seen him sit and writhe in the most intense apparent anguish till the arrival of the accustomed stimulus, when the transformation would be as sudden as it was striking.
And yet he was one of the most inveterate and abandoned voluntary slaves to the drug opium I have ever seen.
Most certainly I never saw it more; nor have I ever tasted any of the opium or laudanum family, from that day to the present, whether in sickness or in health.
To use opium or laudanum at the present day, I grant is no uncommon occurrence.
The opium was fairly entombed in the twine, where, for aught I know, it still remains.
I soon discovered that I had taken a severe cold during the journey; nor do I believe my opiumitself would have saved me.
There was one of the brotherhood, whom I had seen, nearly eighty, and yet as active and elastic as the opium eater of seventy.
In short, but for hisopium taking, he would have enjoyed a green old age.
This quite changed his manner; he let me quietly remain till the guns announced the opening of the gates of the city, and then he begged me to give him some money to buy opium with.
A favourable journey of six days brought us to Double Island, where we found ourselves landed in the midst of a small but very ungodly community of foreigners, engaged in the opium trade and other commercial enterprises.
No such thing; and a man who sinned day and night against his stomach, and swilledopium as he did, couldn't be expected to know.
Many of these Mandarins smoke it; most of them, if not all, accept presents and close their eyes at opium smuggling.
But latterly, and since the first edition of these lectures was published, Mr. Turner has preferred to carry on the anti-opium agitation more quietly, for I think I have thrown cold water upon the zeal of him and his friends.
The real fact, believe me, is this, the Chinese dislike and distrust the missionaries not because opium is an evil but because they hate and despise Christianity.
Nothing can possibly show better the prevalence of opium smoking in the provinces of Szechuan and Yunnan and Hupah, they being about equal in extent to France, Spain, and Portugal.
I have now told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth on the opium question; certainly such has been my intention.
That gentleman tells a very different tale aboutopium to what the Anti-Opium Society has hitherto regaled the world with.
Ayres, the Colonial Surgeon of Hong Kong, of the fallacy that Opium smoking, although indulged in for years, cannot be dropped without injury to the system.
As my book had dealt a heavy blow to the Anti-Opium Society, and a cheap edition might prove still more damaging, an opposition book, with a similar title, might so confuse the public as to be mistaken for mine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "opium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
