List of synonyms from "neologies" to synonyms from "nerve-center"


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Definition of the day : « nepenthe »

  • As in narcotic : noun powerful drug inducing anesthesia or sleep
Example sentences :
  • Perhaps it was a berry of the nepenthe, which brought oblivion.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 » by Theophile Gautier
  • This particular preparation of valerian is nepenthe for the nerves.
  • Extract from : « The Bishop's Secret » by Fergus Hume
  • In the Odyssey, in connection with Helen, mention is made of nepenthe.
  • Extract from : « Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern » by Edgar Saltus
  • Crown us with asphodel flowers, that are wet with the dews of nepenthe.
  • Extract from : « Great Inventions and Discoveries » by Willis Duff Piercy
  • I am getting restless again, and there flow the waters of Nepenthe.
  • Extract from : « The Call of the Town » by John Alexander Hammerton
  • I did not find the nepenthe I sought for anywhere on draught, so I went home in disgust.
  • Extract from : « Belford's Magazine, Vol. II, No. 3, February 1889 » by Various
  • Nepenthe was an Egyptian drug that dispelled the memory of whatever is sad.
  • Extract from : « Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern » by Edgar Saltus
  • I drank of the nepenthe cup, and in it my past was washed out and my soul was drowned.'
  • Extract from : « The Unknown Sea » by Clemence Housman
  • I do not employ opium as an aid to my social activities; I regard it as nepenthe from them and as a key to a brighter realm.
  • Extract from : « The Yellow Claw » by Sax Rohmer
  • The other, beneath its bitter lash, becomes a human dynamo, plunging into the nepenthe of toil.
  • Extract from : « The Lash » by Olin L. Lyman