| 1. | I prefer Tasso a good deal, or even the soporific tales of Ariosto.. - from Candide by Voltaire |
| 2. | "I was determined to eat only such things as could not possibly have anything soporific introduced into them. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 3. | When the monotonous sound of Weyrother's voice ceased, Kutuzov opened his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel is interrupted. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |