philter

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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

The night was dark, the sentinels of the castle benumbed with a philter, the ladder already clung close to the window, and the champing steeds were pawing the ground not very far away.

From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

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

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

From The Mississippi Bubble by Hough, Emerson

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