It is the effect of an opiate I gave her.
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
So easy; the old woman took her opiate every night, and slept till morning.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
Still she hesitated to approach the bedside, knowing that unless she took her opiate medicine Lady Teigne's night's rest was of a kind that rendered her peevish and irritable the whole of the next day, and as full of whims as some fretful child.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn