aspirined

Under the influence of aspirin.

Mavis presentable now—washed, combed, aspirined and swimming a little in Birdie’s housedress.

When the father protested that he could not possibly take the boy back home with so many visits left to make, Priscilla declared the child could rest at our place, aspirined and blanketed, and be picked up by his father at the end of the dhobi’s day.

Having aspirin.

The aspirined wine still swung the world in a slow circle, from which he listened to the crickets in the silence-wrapped darkness of the backyards.

Give him some aspirined insect-powder.