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

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

From The Mississippi Bubble by Hough, Emerson

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

From Marguerite de Valois by Dumas père, Alexandre

"But God forbid I should rescue you from him by giving him a philter."

From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de

To these lowly, solitary men, who knew nothing beyond their own fields and coppices and wastelands, its excitement came like a magic philter to change the monotony of their days.

From The Waters of Edera by Ouida