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 best philter to excite love is love itself.
From In Both Worlds by William Henry Holcombe
The way she tripped across the floor Was better than a philter.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
The name of Phil is a philter to me.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various
And guessing that the philter was poison, and fearing to awaken the Queen's suspicions, you feigned readiness to accept the mission of death?
From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Eug?ne Sue
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
