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 Armando Palacio Vald?s
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 William Carleton
The philter must be emptied quickly after the stopper is removed from the vial.
From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Eug?ne Sue
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 Octave Feuillet
So shocked was Byron that he complained that the book was filled with "the philtered ideas of a jaded voluptuary."
From Time Magazine Archive
These descriptions ought to have been written by Tiberius at Caprea—they are forced—the philtered ideas of a jaded voluptuary.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Rowland Edmund Prothero, Baron Ernle
