philter

Hagar, in a fine dramatic melody, promised both, and proceeded to call up the spirit who would bring the love philter.

Here, the chef, unseen, flips your chosen items in a wok with a philter of chile and spice.

I touched a hollow in a wall and picked a leaf and, where a street opened on the bay, looked and looked: the sea’s salty taste acted as a philter and years of contentment and ease surged about me, trying to reinstate themselves: my girls met me and we went home together, sharing our innocence.

I touched a hollow in a wall and picked a leaf and, where a street opened on the bay, looked and looked: the sea’s salty taste acted as a philter and years of contentment and ease surged about me, trying to reinstate themselves: my girls met me and we went home together, sharing our innocence.

This remark appears judicious, since the potion described by the Abbé was evidently intended as an amorous philter.