He was "queerish," Milly said, and I learnt afterwards he took much laudanum.

One wonders that more of them did not imitate poor Paracelsus, who, unable to get a hearing for his coarse common sense, tookvain and sensualto drinking the laudanum which he himself had discovered, and vaunted as a priceless boon to men; and died as the fool dieth, in spite of all his wisdom.

Years after he had been laid in his grave, his daughter, Euphemia, being in great indigence, received real kindness from Sir James and Lady Mackintosh, the former of whom used to delight in telling the story of her father's saying to her: 'Effy, bring me the mooderate stimulus of a hoonderd draps o' laudanum in a glass

He swallowed laudanum, but, by making it an overdose, frustrated his own design.

"I'm wanting threepenn'orth o' laudanum," he announced.

And the assistant looks confused enough for Tom to rejoin, "And you sold him laudanum?" "Whyah" "And you had sold him laudanum already this afternoon, you young rascal?

I need no other laudanum than this to make me sleep; after which I close mine eyes in security, content to take my leave of the sun, and sleep unto the resurrection.