Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A drink to excite love; a philter or love-potion.
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Examples
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But, Tristram and La Beale Isoud found that love-drink!
Missy Dana Gatlin
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The spell of the love-drink that Heru, blushing, had held to my lips was on me.
Gulliver of Mars 1905
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Consuelo Fould, prepares a "Philter": a love-drink doubtless, inasmuch as a woman should know how to compose no other.
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The spell of the love-drink that Heru, blushing, had held to my lips was on me.
Gulliver of Mars Edwin Lester Linden Arnold 1896
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-- "She had a lover named Albert, who followed her everywhere, but as she would not listen to him he hated her, and pretended that she had given him a love-drink."
Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 Wilhelm Meinhold 1824
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She did give a love-drink to Albert, because he grew cross, and spent the nights away from her, and complained if she idled a little, so that her master beat her.
Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 Wilhelm Meinhold 1824
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She was there admonished to tell the whole truth, but persisted in asseverating that Sidonia had never learned from her how to make a love-drink.
Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 Wilhelm Meinhold 1824
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Here Sidonia laughed aloud, and asked if she knew how to brew the love-drink?
Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 Wilhelm Meinhold 1824
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Clara therefore told him the whole affair in Italian, before her maid and the witch-girl -- of the visit of the young Prince, and how the girl was lying hid under the bed, and asked him was it not likely that Sidonia had brought her there to teach her how to brew the love-drink, with which she would then have bewitched the
Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 Wilhelm Meinhold 1824
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If she were pronounced really guilty, it would then be time enough to question her on the rack about the love-drink and the conversation between the young lord and
Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 Wilhelm Meinhold 1824
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