nepenthe

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For thrill-loving tourists, for the great, near-great and notorious, Catalina had been nepenthe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Those lyrics, which act upon the mind like nepenthe, are also by Segal, a classics scholar who is driving without a poetic license.

From Time Magazine Archive

And the search is more intense than ever for the Unspoiled Spot, where Those Who Know can get away from it all for a quiet taste of nepenthe with good food and a clean bed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just one thing which stuck in his head was the sight of a small creature like a marmoset, sticking an inquisitive nose into the heart of a sickly-sweet plant which resembled a terrestrial nepenthe.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 by Various

In "Evangeline" Longfellow refers to it in this line: "Crown us with asphodel flowers, that are wet with the dews of nepenthe."

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff