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Meanings of philter in anglès
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filtre A drink credited with magical power; can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it.
Synonyms
Examples for "philtre"
Examples for "philtre"
1
But if he buys me a good philtre I will forgive him.
2
The philtre was in her veins, whatever the directions of the rational mind.
3
It is a love philtre I made for Anthony's wedding night.
4
Some philtre has been given to her for a bad purpose.
5
Yet, doubtless he is as good enough physician to make a love philtre.
1
What blissful charm, what undivined wealth of beauty in this fiery love-potion!
2
She complained that Dr. Graham had given her a love-potion!
3
Sir Francis will fancy you have swallowed a love-potion.
4
Isolda knows it is the love-potion she means.
5
To weave your spell out of commonplace events and brew a love-potion from every-day materials is high art.
1
Of course the elixir of youth is at the same time a love-philter.
2
Or maybe that cheap smell about her is a love-philter!
3
Men said she had bewitched him by a love-philter.
4
He relied chiefly on his own reckless obstinacy-whichhe liked to call firm determination-Nemu'scunning, and the love-philter.
5
But love-philters are among the commonest things to sell and buy.
1
A love-philtre, such as was used by the ancients with great effect.
2
My idea was rather that the beverage was a sort of love-philtre, such as I had read of in my book of fairy tales.
3
Vervain has long been in repute as a love-philtre, and in Germany now-a-days endive-seed is sold for its supposed power to influence the affections.
4
The root of the male fern was in years gone by used in love-philtres, and hence the following allusion:
5
The book, as we turned over its pages, gave directions for preparing everything from food to love-philtres and the elixir of life.
Usage of philter in anglès
1
For it was at the season when Nature brews the irresistible philter.
2
Or had the love-philter set him in the place of Mena?
3
The proprietor lifted her shoulders in a worn-out shrug: "A love philter?"
4
Yes, with me, with old Hekt-tobuy a love philter.
5
The philter will work: from the moment I catch his eye, he is mine!
6
The name of Phil is a philter to me.
7
Would it be better, for example, if a love philter was introduced for consistency's sake?
8
The philter; it was clear, had been given him, and he was now under its influence.
9
Is there in truth any effectual love-philter?
10
Katuti had taken quite a new interest in Paaker since she had heard of his procuring the philter.
11
What philter is in these faculties?
12
I'll make a philter of them!'
13
The sorceress Hekt passed him; she wanted to see the woman for whom she had given him the philter.
14
Katuti feigned ignorance, listened to the story of the love-philter, and played the part of the alarmed mother very cleverly.
15
But in the next act, just before she drinks the philter alone in her chamber, she oversteps the modesty of nature.
16
He found her lying by the wayside; he gathered into the casket what remained of the philter, and awoke his beloved.
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Frequent collocations
Philter through the time