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
Thy look containeth both the dawn and sunset stars, Thy perfumes, as upon a sultry night exhale, Thy kiss a philter, and thy mouth a Grecian vase, That renders heroes cowardly and infants hale.
From The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
She hastens to the Friar who married them, and he gives her the philter, which she accepts joyfully and carries home in her bosom.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various
Perhaps the absence that makes the heart grow fonder is working like a philter in this journey planned by Mrs. Valentine with a far different purpose.
From Ladies-In-Waiting by Christine Tucke Curtiss
Was I still under the influence of the philter poured into the wine?
From The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death by Solon De Leon
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
