“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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

My idea was rather that the beverage was a sort of love-philtre, such as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

This was her lure, her love-philtre; this it was that revolutionised the Oak Eggar world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Life in the Insect World] Reference

In Tristan it is not essential that the philtre is a true love-philtre, but here the case is different.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner]

"I poured your own love-philtre into it, that you sold me at the agricultural show, don't you re-member?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jude the Obscure] Reference

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?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jude the Obscure] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Lyly] Reference

"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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth] Reference

Teufelsbürst, without philosophising about it, called his preparation simply a love-philtre, a concoction well known by name, but the composition of which was the secret of only a few.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Portent & Other Stories] Reference

Teufelsbürst, without philosophizing about it, called his preparation simply a love-philtre, a concoction well known by name, but the composition of which was the secret of only a few.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adela Cathcart, Volume 3] Reference

At last the mother contrived to inveigle a youth into marrying her daughter by means of a love-philtre, but on the first night he ran away, and shortly afterwards married another bride.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country] Reference

Her most ordinary remarks were framed with the view of arresting attention; some one once said of her that she ordered a sack of potatoes with the air of one who is making enquiry for a love-philtre.    From Wordnik.com.  [When William Came] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner] Reference

The secret loves of Tristan and Iseut, their woodland wanderings, their dangers and escapes, are related with fine imaginative sympathy; but in this version of the tale the fatal love-philtre operates only for a period of three years; Iseut, with.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference

But now, seeing that the young Prince lay absolutely at the point of death, she could no longer hold her peace, but throwing herself on her knees before her Grace, told her the whole story of the witch-girl whom she had sheltered in the castle, and of her fears that Sidonia had learned from her how to brew a love-philtre, which she had afterwards given to the Prince.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1] Reference

"A love-philtre, such as was used by the ancients with great effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jude the Obscure] Reference

He had sold a "love-philtre" (pronounced infallible for recalling errant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton] Reference

So that the effect is, in twenty connections, that of a love-philtre or fear-philtre which fixes for the senses their supreme symbol of the fair or the strange.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Small Boy and Others] Reference

It is a love-philtre, beneficent to the young, but if taken by the old so noxious, that had you swallowed it, "with a grin," you had not been long Syndic, Messer Blondel! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Night] Reference

< i > them -- was, to a life-long victim of Italy, almost verily as never before, the operation of the old love-philtre; there were the inexhaustible sources of interest and charm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Hours] Reference

But if it be the love-philtre, you have but to come with me, and you will find her ---- "He did not finish the sentence, but a shrug of his shoulders and a mysterious smile filled the gap.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Night] Reference

"A love-philtre?" said he, and hummed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series] Reference