When one gives a dying man an immense bowl of hot wine, which has also been narcotized,-for the Perrache woman slept all night in a sort of lethargy after drinking a small glass of it,-it is evident that the catastrophe has been hastened."
"The Lesser Bourgeoisie"
Honore de Balzac
She had cooled to apathy, a drowsiness descending that made her reluctant to leave the car; could have ridden on and on in this eased and half-narcotized state, but people had a habit of remembering her.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
But she had not simply buried this caterpillar victim, nor was the caterpillar dead, for these wasp cemeteries are, in truth, living tombs, whose apparently dead inmates are simply sleeping, narcotized by the venom of the wasp sting, and thus designed to afford fresh living food for the young wasp grub, into whose voracious care they are committed.
"My Studio Neighbors"
William Hamilton Gibson