Crossword-Solution: NARCOTIZE 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

The effect of drink on the Indian is: to dethrone his; reason; cloud, even narcotize, his reasoning faculties; annul his self-control; confine and fetter all the gentler, enkindle and set ablaze, all the baser, emotions; of his nature, inciting him to acts lustful and bestial; and, with direful transforming power, to make the man the fiend, to leave him, in short, the mere sport of demoniac passion.

Giving, giving, eternal giving is bound to narcotize into sodden self-satisfaction, or at last to rouse to protest an awakening soul.

Harvey met her in the hall, smiling and scolding: "Why, you reckless girl! Have you been down town? Elbert, where did you get her?" "I found her on the street waiting for a State street car--shivering, too." "Why, you're all wet! Come up to my room and change your shoes." The warm air and the glow of the beautiful rooms seemed to narcotize her, and Rose allowed herself to be led away like a sleepy child.

And nevertheless he desired at present to stay in it, even though for a few days, in order that he might gaze longer upon Panna Marynia and, as he called it, "further narcotize himself." Somehow, from the first moment he had heard her play, she actually absorbed his thoughts in a way that no woman up to that time had done.

They fascinate even when they excite, and soothe and narcotize in the communication of their subtle power.