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
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
The night was dark, the sentinels of the castle benumbed with a philter, the ladder already clung close to the window, and the champing steeds were pawing the ground not very far away.
From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Armando Palacio Vald?s
"My philter, lady," cried the gipsy woman, who had left her donkey cart outside the line.
From The Mississippi Bubble by Emerson Hough
It contains a philter that makes one beloved.
From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Eug?ne Sue
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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