opium-eating

On this point, however, the world continues to differ from you and M. Baudelaire, and perhaps there is only the choice between our optimism and universal suicide or universal opium-eating.

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

And how do I find my health after all this opium-eating?

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 2003

Here, as everywhere, there was more pistol practice, and the boys plumed themselves on having discovered a new vice — that of opium-eating, while their father made the house unendurable by the preparation of sulphuretted hydrogen and other highly-scented compounds.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

But (2) — which will possibly surprise the reader more — some years ago, on passing through Manchester, I was informed by several cotton manufacturers that their workpeople were rapidly getting into the practice of opium-eating; so much so, that on a Saturday afternoon the counters of the druggists were strewed with pills of one, two, or three grains, in preparation for the known demand of the evening.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 2003

With respect to the torpor supposed to follow, or rather (if we were to credit the numerous pictures of Turkish opium-eaters) to accompany the practice of opium-eating, I deny that also.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 2003

If opium-eating be a sensual pleasure, and if I am bound to confess that I have indulged in it to an excess not yet RECORDED

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 2003

The following narrative of a case of confirmed opium-eating was communicated to the editor of the _Knickerbocker Magazine_, in the year 1842, by Dr.B. W. M'Cready of New York, accompanied by the following statement:

The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

The battery in the hands of a scientific man is one of our most powerful adjuncts throughout every stage of treatment, both of opium-eating and its sequelae.

The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

It is certain that none of the effects of opium-eating are more marked or more obstinately tenacious in their hold upon the system than these.

The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

Thus, one of the most noticeable phenomena connected with opium-eating is the burden of life resting back upon the heart, which deliberately pulsates the moments of existence, as if the most momentous issues depended upon each separate throb.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various