philter

Example Sentences

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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

"Did he ask you for some potion or philter?"

From Marguerite de Valois by Dumas père, Alexandre

Persis went to the vast sideboard, and, while Crofts fussed about her, handing her the shaker, the ice, and bottle after bottle, she prepared the cup as if it were a mystic philter of love.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Hughes, Rupert

"My philter, lady," cried the gipsy woman, who had left her donkey cart outside the line.

From The Mississippi Bubble by Hough, Emerson

Well, madam, you shall be supplied with a philter that never fails, on the payment ol twenty-one shillings.

From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William