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

There is a dish for you, a philter wherewith to woo the appetite!

From Europe After 8:15 by Benton, Thomas H.

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

I am absolutely in love; when she looks at me, when I touch her hand, when her dress rustles against me, I feel, as it were, a philter running through my veins.

From Led Astray and The Sphinx Two Novellas In One Volume by Feuillet, Octave