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
And a powder made of the light-coloured tubercle formed the main ingredient, said my cousin, in the love philter; while a powder made of the dark-coloured one excited, it was held, only antipathy and dislike.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller
They were as oblivious of their peril as Tristan and Isolde in the spell of the love philter.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
Would it be better, for example, if a love philter was introduced for consistency's sake?
From Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies by Charlotte Endymion Porter
Well, madam, you shall be supplied with a philter that never fails, on the payment ol twenty-one shillings.
From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
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
