nepenthe
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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
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
Plunged in its furtive depths you felt the spell of nature's mystery upon you; the mystery of the hoary wood, age-old, steeped in the nepenthe of the centuries.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
In the Odyssey, in connection with Helen, mention is made of nepenthe.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
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