nepenthe
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Those lyrics, which act upon the mind like nepenthe, are also by Segal, a classics scholar who is driving without a poetic license.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the search is more intense than ever for the Unspoiled Spot, where Those Who Know can get away from it all for a quiet taste of nepenthe with good food and a clean bed.
From Time Magazine Archive
For thrill-loving tourists, for the great, near-great and notorious, Catalina had been nepenthe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hammer conjectures that the word benge, or, with the Coptic article in the plural, ni-benje, is the same with the nepenthe of the ancients.—Fundgruben des Orients, iii.
From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley
This particular preparation of valerian is nepenthe for the nerves.
From The Bishop's Secret by Fergus Hume
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