She lay as one in a trance, wholly insensible of the fact that she was alone, aware only of the perpetual rush and fall of the torrent below, which seemed to act like a narcotic upon her brain.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell
It is like a spiritual narcotic.
"The New Tenant"
E. Phillips Oppenheim
If the Indians had been somnolent before drinking the water, they were not rendered more wakeful by the indulgence, and it was almost ludicrous to see what useless efforts they made to battle against the potent narcotic.
"The White Squaw"
Mayne Reid