The decisive part played by the magic love-potion has given rise to much comment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference

By and by they are thirsty, and a careless attendant finding the love-potion handy, gives it to them to drink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference

The next performance, following on the heels of the first, was a love-potion farce, a form of farce with many variations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cinnamon Roll] Reference

But Brangaena, her faithful attendant secretly changes the poisoned draught for a love-potion, so that they are inevitably joined in passionate love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

In the second act Isolda has been wedded to Marke, but the love-potion has worked well, and she has secret interviews at night with Tristan, whose sense of honor is deadened by the fatal draught.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

Some of us who like Barack Obama get accused of having drunk the Kool-Aid – or perhaps love-potion would be more accurate – and thus being too smitten by his rhetorical enticements to see him clearly for what he is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why I'm Kinda Fonda Obama (And More So Each Week)] Reference

Thus they have it planned: Siegfried shall by a love-potion be won to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wagnerian Romances] Reference

What blissful charm, what undivined wealth of beauty in this fiery love-potion!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt]

Brangaena has betrayed her: the cup contains not the poison but the love-potion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Wagner Composer of Operas] Reference

He is said to have been driven mad by a love-potion, and to have perished by his own hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Smaller History of Rome] Reference

Why, the hoary seniors are all lamentation too; strange! has madam Life given them a love-potion?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01] Reference

Various pairings occur; young men and women swoon carefully with love-potion infatuation and jealousy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kasama] Reference

To weave your spell out of commonplace events and brew a love-potion from every-day materials is high art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women] Reference

The tragedy of love is depicted in the romance of Tristram and Iseult, where a love-potion plays a prominent part.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Epic] Reference

The mother of Iseult gave to her daughter's confidante a philtre, or love-potion, to be administered on the night of her nuptials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold] Reference

'Such faces and such tempers seldom go together, and, when they do, the compound is a love-potion which few heads or hearts can resist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purcell Papers — Volume 2] Reference

` Such faces and such tempers seldom go together, and, when they do, the compound is a love-potion which few heads or hearts can resist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purcell Papers, Volume II] Reference

Zweiback, the druggist of the gods, has disobeyed and concocted a love-potion which has rendered the young couple very unpleasant company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love Conquers All] Reference

His fortune began in his marriage to an aged but very wealthy widow, who almost put an end to his career by administering to him a love-potion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15) The Romance of Reality, German] Reference

Imām Hoossein, or whatever patron the forlorn dame may have adopted, should not yield to her supplications, she then has recourse to a love-potion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia] Reference

Her work this, the work of her disobedient hands which, too weak for the stern task assigned them, poured out the love-potion in place of the death-draught.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wagnerian Romances] Reference

Would you believe, that such a sentimental Writer would be so gross as to make cantharides one of the ingredients of a love-potion, for enamouring Telemachus?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference

The King exclaims against his rashness, for since he had heard Brangoena's story of the love-potion he had come to give his consent to the union of the lovers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers] Reference

They have colour, texture, form, habit, and an exhalation that is like a love-potion -- earthy things that ask so little, do so well apart and low among the shadows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation] Reference

He just watched, as if discarnate, the unrolling of the decrees of Fate which were to bring so simple and overpowering a tragedy on the two who drained the love-potion together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael] Reference

A philtre, or love-potion, to be administered on the night of her nuptials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems] Reference

‘Such faces and such tempers seldom go together, and, when they do, the compound is a love-potion which few heads or hearts can resist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purcell Papers] Reference

"Those of ye who don't have never wanted a love-potion or needed the ram put back in yer rod or gotten tired of a nagging mother - in-law's tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wizard and Glass]

What you have really come for is either a love-potion -- "she paused and glanced keenly at her visitor --" or the means to avenge love unrequited. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20] Reference

Isolda knows it is the love-potion she means.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner] Reference

The secret of the love-potion has been told to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference

The love-potion!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tristan und Isolde] Reference