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
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
For thrill-loving tourists, for the great, near-great and notorious, Catalina had been nepenthe.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Willis Duff Piercy
Thou the nepenthe easing grief Art, and the mind's healing relief.
From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by E. K. (Edmund Kerchever) Chambers
