somniferous


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After initiation of tissue disentanglement, the somniferous tubules' fragments were separated from interstitial cells by centrifugation at 100xg for 1 min, and the supernatant, containing mostly the interstitial cells, was discarded.
And while this is a gentleman's club on wheels, the crucial difference is that unlike rooms of leathery somniferous calm, technical evolution means it is not the waiting room for extinction.
The heat and humidity, and the drone of the twin Allison engines, were somniferous. Having had only a few hours of sleep and weakened by malaria, Mitchell started to doze off when "I got a light tap on my shoulder from the Man upstairs and caught myself." Another pilot, in a similar state, got too low and the tips of his props hit the water, sending a sheet of spray over his cockpit.
This piece, which began unpromisingly with what appeared to be ponderous, minimalist repetition, drew out Martynov's professed 21st-century versions of Schubert's "infinite heavenly lengths" into celestial strings of somniferous reverie.
Have you fallen into the Powerpoint trap, reading somniferous bullet points to a dozing audience?
Her ageing flesh moves to some sweet song of only its knowing and the languid flow is a strange somniferous tone that calls.