love-philtre

“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

But once more love and duty prevail; and when Ulana sweetly presents him the love-philtre he drains it at one draught, and immediately feeling the fire of the strong and potent drug, he becomes cheerful and receives his wife, who has adorned herself with a wreath of flowers with open arms.

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

The despondent lover, after applying in vain to an Italian magician for a love-philtre, at length determines to adopt the bolder line of writing to his scornful lady.

John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925

The catastrophe of the pie, he explained, was in no way to be attributed to the love-philtre (which was composed of sifted sugar and cinnamon), but was due to the fact that instead of the philtre he had inadvertently handed his fair client a packet out of the next drawer, which contained ready-made-up doses of tartaric acid for immediate use in the case of small boys who had swallowed sixpences.

The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton Ian Hay 1914

As Isolda rushes in he staggers into her arms, and dies there to the phrases in which they had first spoken after drinking the love-philtre.

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 Runciman, John F 1913

Brangaena protests, and warns Isolda against Melot, who has arranged this night hunt as a trap to catch Tristan; and she bewails the officiousness which led her to substitute the love-philtre for the poison.

Wagner Runciman, John F 1913

The name given to this was _hippomanes_, and it was supposed to act as a powerful love-philtre.

The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1902

"I poured your own love-philtre into it, that you sold me at the agricultural show, don't you re-member?"

Jude the Obscure 1896

Laughing again she said: "I poured your own love-philtre into it, that you sold me at the agricultural show, don't you re-member?"

Jude the Obscure 1894