philtre

"I took what you're calling a philtre before the first ones got here."

Nightside The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1993

In Tristan it is not essential that the philtre is a true love-philtre, but here the case is different.

Wagner Runciman, John F 1913

In _Tristan_ it is not essential that the philtre is a true love-philtre, but here the case is different.

Wagner John F. Runciman 1891

She had just swallowed a philtre of toad skin and wormwood, and was finding it difficult to concentrate.

ARS DRACONIS • by Jens Rushing 2008

From Middle French philtre, from Latin philtrum, from Greek philtron; akin to Greek philosophy dear.

Dear Clusterflock | clusterflock 2009

Thus, according to St Jerome, he was driven mad by a love philtre, wrote poetry in his lucid intervals, and died by his own hand, leaving his poem to be edited posthumously by Cicero.

Lucretius Sedley, David 2008

“The Rose!” said Frank quietly, seeing that his new love-philtre was working well, and determined to strike while the iron was hot, and carry the matter too far to carry it back again.

Westward Ho! 2007

Without having first made this diversion, he would have found it impracticable to leave the house with tranquillity; but, when this bewitching philtre grew into an habit, her attachment to Ferdinand was insensibly dissolved; she began to bear his neglect with indifference, and, sequestering herself from the rest of the family, used to solicit this new ally for consolation.

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.

lost weekend 2004

A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.

no connoisseur 2004