philter
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Red Hugh fell afoul of a British agent who accomplished with a philter what could not be done by force.
From Time Magazine Archive
"But God forbid I should rescue you from him by giving him a philter."
From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Honor? de Balzac
"My philter, lady," cried the gipsy woman, who had left her donkey cart outside the line.
From The Mississippi Bubble by Emerson Hough
Persis went to the vast sideboard, and, while Crofts fussed about her, handing her the shaker, the ice, and bottle after bottle, she prepared the cup as if it were a mystic philter of love.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
"Did he ask you for some potion or philter?"
From Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas père
So shocked was Byron that he complained that the book was filled with "the philtered ideas of a jaded voluptuary."
From Time Magazine Archive
These descriptions ought to have been written by Tiberius at Caprea—they are forced—the philtered ideas of a jaded voluptuary.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Rowland Edmund Prothero, Baron Ernle
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