nepenthe
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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
For thrill-loving tourists, for the great, near-great and notorious, Catalina had been nepenthe.
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
An archaeologic tour in Spain, a yachting cruise in the Mediterranean, a winter in Egypt—all these things would be to Westray’s taste; the blameless herb nepenthe might anywhere be found growing by the wayside.
From The Nebuly Coat by John Meade Falkner
Unguents and astringents were in use in the physician's art, and there is reference to "nepenthe," a narcotic drug, and also to the use of sulphur as a disinfectant.
From Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by James Sands Elliott
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