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Definition of “sleeping draught”

sleeping draught

On the Governor's orders, they gave Gene a sleeping draught that night, the only one he would receive.

Frank Delaney Telling the Pictures

On the table beside her bed the nurse had left her dose of tonic, and her sleeping draught already mixed.

Thomas, Rosie The White Dove

She lay awake until midnight when one of the night-duty nuns gave her a sleeping draught.

Forrest, Roberta When the Apricots Bloom

So your father got a hefty dose of the sleeping draught , and on top of his usual ration of bloody gin it bloody killed him!

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