night-draught

‘Saddle me old Sorrel,’ said he suddenly, after he had taken his usual night-draught out of the great silver grace-cup, ‘and take the hounds to Mount Hazelhurst tomorrow.’

Kenilworth 2004

On the toilet was a beautiful Venetian mirror, in a frame of silver filigree, and beside it stood a gold posset-dish to contain the night-draught.

Kenilworth 2004

'Trot, my dear,' said my aunt, when she saw me making preparations for compounding her usual night-draught, 'No!'

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

He calls for his night-draught, sends Sieglinda into the sleeping-room, and follows her.

Richard Wagner Runciman, John F 1913

Sieglinda drugs her husband's night-draught, and, while he is sleeping, tells Siegmund of how, when she was abducted, and compelled against her will to marry Hunding, a gray-bearded stranger came in, with his hat drawn over one eye -- Wotan had but one eye -- and wearing a dark-blue cloak marked with stars, suggested by the deep-blue star-pierced sky by night.

Wagner John F. Runciman 1891

He calls for his night-draught, sends Sieglinda into the sleeping-room, and follows her.

Richard Wagner Composer of Operas John F. Runciman 1891

My father's night-draught can be mixed in a minute.

A Thorny Path — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

It was long after supper, and my uncle had had his night-draught of wine when my aunt sent the house-keeper to fetch me to her.

Margery — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

He went up to the little table near her bed; on it stood her night-draught in a pretty colored glass, that Polykarp had brought her from Alexandria as a token, and with the back of his hand he swept it from the table, so that it fell on the dais, and flew with a crash into a thousand fragments.

Homo Sum — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867

She carefully arranged the cushions on his couch, and gave him his medicine and night-draught.

A Thorny Path — Complete Georg Ebers 1867