nepenthe

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For thrill-loving tourists, for the great, near-great and notorious, Catalina had been nepenthe.

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

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

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 Keightley, Thomas

Slow time a sad nepenthe brought, Numb poignance with no sigh, When body, dim with sorrow, sought Day with a dead man's eye.—

From Ioläus The man that was a ghost by Mackereth, James Allan