A drink credited with magical power; can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it.
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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 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!
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.
6 "A love-philtre ? " said he, and hummed.
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