love philter

Example Sentences

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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 Hughes, Rupert

I doubt whether there is any love philter that could affect La Fontaine, he has never been a lover of women unless they were able to foot the bills.

From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by Overton, William Hassell

Then, with a warmth of determination worthy a younger man, he demanded an explanation, and received a confession of the poisonous love philter.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse

Desperate certainly she was when she dared even to think of giving a love philter to a minister.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse

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 Miller, Hugh