“It must have been a work of vast ability in the somniferous school of literature.”

“Elsewhere, Sleep, one of the album's stand out tracks, is about as somniferous as a pneumatic drill.”

“Quaffing it down, and betaking himself to bed, under its somniferous influence, the Wye waterman is soon in the land of dreams.”

“I was powerfully affected by the changeless somnific quality of Zara's tones.”

“He should not stigmatize the world for being sleepy, when he himself has given a somnific influence to all his readers.”

“He threw himself upon a heap of straw that lay on the floor, and soon forgot his desperate situation in the arms of the somnific deity.”