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 in the next act, just before she drinks the philter alone in her chamber, she oversteps the modesty of nature.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various
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
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
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
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
