opium-habit

Capsicum, in the five grain doses earlier mentioned, may often be relied on to counteract the tendency to frightful dreams arising from the exquisitely irritable state of the stomach in which the opium-habit leaves its victims.

The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

If its inspiration was in some degree due to opium, we know from the example of S.T. Coleridge that the opium-habit is not favourable to certainty of memory or the accurate presentation of facts.

Crabbe Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904 1903

And the ordinary reader who knows the poet mainly through his sober couplets may well be surprised to hear that their author was ever addicted to the opium-habit; still more, that his imagination ever owed anything to its stimulus.

Crabbe Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904 1903

As we have seen, the subject of dreams had always had a fascination for him, of a kind not unconnected perhaps with the opium-habit.

Crabbe Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904 1903

He was not the man he had been; and he had learned the opium-habit from a woman who had managed a joint at

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

"Trouble is not one of those fancies you can take up and drop at any moment; it's like a grouse-moor or the opium-habit -- once you start it you've got to keep it up."

Reginald 1870-1916 Saki 1893

As we have seen, the subject of dreams had always had a fascination for him, of a kind not unconnected perhaps with the opium-habit.

English Men of Letters: Crabbe Alfred Ainger 1870

And the ordinary reader who knows the poet mainly through his sober couplets may well be surprised to hear that their author was ever addicted to the opium-habit; still more, that his imagination ever owed anything to its stimulus.

English Men of Letters: Crabbe Alfred Ainger 1870

If its inspiration was in some degree due to opium, we know from the example of S.T. Coleridge that the opium-habit is not favourable to certainty of memory or the accurate presentation of facts.

English Men of Letters: Crabbe Alfred Ainger 1870

_The Friend_ had been given up; he had made his London home with the Morgans; had delivered the pictures on Shakespeare and contributed to _The Courier_; "Remorse" had been produced with Lamb's prologue, January 23, 1813; the quarrel with Wordsworth had been to some extent healed; he had sold his German books; and the opium-habit was growing on him.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805