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Example sentences for "stupifying"

Lexicographically close words:
stupidest; stupidities; stupidity; stupidly; stupified; stupor; stuporous; stur; sturb; sturdie
  1. Do you know how long he's been here--stupifying himself?

  2. A poppy is a flower which has either four or six petals, and two or more treasuries, united into one; containing a milky, stupifying fluid in its stalks and leaves, and always throwing away its calyx when it blossoms.

  3. That it is of a stupifying nature, and itself so stupid that it does not know how many petals it should have, is surely not enough distinction?

  4. To make Cephalecs of Narcoticks, or stupifying medicines, is not my intent, for I am confident they are inimical both to brain and senses.

  5. The scenes I went through with this man, the sufferings I endured, and the stupifying terrors that seized me if I saw but his shadow, I can never forget.

  6. Take my advice, Trevor; quit all thoughts of so joyless and stupifying a trade!

  7. Exhausted by excess of grief, he now lay in a stupifying anguish, until the servant summoned him to breakfast.

  8. Melissa heard none of her aunt's observations; she lay in a stupifying agony, insensible to all that passed.

  9. He can read here without stupifying his senses, and gain useful information without corrupting his manners.

  10. I am not aware that any one of them has ever made himself the public advocate of truth, of scientific philosophical truth, in opposition to the false and stupifying dogmas of Priestcraft or Holy Books.

  11. But even the bottle itself, from which there exhaled a strong stupifying odour, I hurled away through the open window, over the wall of the court, in order to annihilate at once every operation of this damnable Elixir.

  12. On contemplating the picture, my mind was overpowered by confused and stupifying apprehensions, which I vainly endeavoured to arrange into some definite shape.

  13. These gentlemen of good birth and better taste seldom smoke, as the narcotic stupifying weed deadens papillatory delicacy.

  14. The genuine Goths, as happens everywhere to this day, were great swillers of ale and beer, heady and stupifying mixtures, according to Aristotle.

  15. The lethal influences which rose about her like stupifying fumes in the courts of fashion had been lifted and swept away by the fresher and more invigorating breezes into which her bark had now been drawn.

  16. The consolation which the stupifying drug affords, yes!

  17. Prescriptions containing either opium or morphin are frequently given to relieve pain, or to produce sleep, when the primary trouble is chronic, and should be treated by removing the causes, and not alleviated by stupifying the nerves.

  18. They accomplish this by stupifying the nerves and the nerve fibers, which serve as telegraph wires to inform the brain that something is wrong.

  19. The use of intoxicating and stupifying drugs doubtless contributed also to the development of those ideas of strange and wonderful transformations and anomalies of form with which the legends and romances of Oriental and European nations teem.


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