nepenthe

Example Sentences

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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

It was "daffodil time," and every gold cup held nepenthe for the nightmare dream of winter.

From Aunt Jane of Kentucky by Strong, Beulah

Fifteen minutes later he returned with a kettle of his favourite nepenthe and all three adventurers drank to a bon voyage home.

From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Grant, Gordon