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
I am absolutely in love; when she looks at me, when I touch her hand, when her dress rustles against me, I feel, as it were, a philter running through my veins.
From Led Astray and The Sphinx Two Novellas In One Volume by Octave Feuillet
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
"Did he ask you for some potion or philter?"
From Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas père
A love-potion," replied Luke Hatton, calmly, "I am about to prepare a philter for her, and will answer for its effect.
From The Star-Chamber, Volume 2 An Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth
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
