"I took what you're calling a philtre before the first ones got here.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Nightside The Long Sun]

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

Who shall withstand the philtre Endora of Hecate brews?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

Tristram, they poured the philtre into the wine of Isoude and Sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference

They thought that the philtre being so potent, it would cause Sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference

'No! The philtre, brew it, make it quickly, give it me, I beg of thee!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

Some say that it is a philtre for love, and that it exterminates jealousy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference

She suggests administering the philtre which her mother has prepared for Marke to Tristan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference

From Middle French philtre, from Latin philtrum, from Greek philtron; akin to Greek philosophy dear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dear Clusterflock | clusterflock] Reference

She had just swallowed a philtre of toad skin and wormwood, and was finding it difficult to concentrate.    From Wordnik.com.  [ARS DRACONIS • by Jens Rushing] Reference

Isolde here strikes the tone which she maintains throughout the act until all is changed by the philtre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference

Out of such experience developed the idea of the magical girdle as an allurement and a love-provoking charm or philtre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

The princesses had made them drink something of a philtre, which froze the heart and left nothing but the love of dancing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Fairy Book] Reference

She shall brew, doubly brew a philtre of love, strong enough to warm the icy Chios were he ten times colder than the snows on Tmolus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

What had Sylvia found to be lacking in her philtre?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opened Shutters] Reference

Were then the old witchcraft and philtre tales really true?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Siren] Reference

It is the very cup of Circe -- the very philtre of Sun-poison.    From Wordnik.com.  [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference

She was concocting a philtre to make a girl happy, -- herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opened Shutters] Reference

Health, Strength and Beauty -- in a bottle -- the magic philtre!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tono Bungay] Reference

I gave you the philtre in your drinking water, and Foy, the traitor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch] 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

The philtre was in her veins, whatever the directions of the rational mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference

After rehearsing the legend down to the drinking of the fateful philtre, he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music] Reference

It issued in that always; in some plan or scheme for gaining possession of the philtre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Night] Reference

What maddening philtre have you drank, to intoxicate you with a woman who uses you so imperiously?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Dog] Reference

Niobe got her philtre, — though whether it reconquered Procles is not contained in this history.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Victor of Salamis] Reference

At each visit he drank deep draughts of the philtre, that was poisoning the fountains of his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Siren] Reference

You administered the philtre to the maid and neglected my instructions to offer yourself to her at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch] Reference

I have drank the maddening philtre, -- I know that, Amélie, and would not take an antidote if I had one!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Dog] Reference

Foy had been so fortunate, or so cunning as to make advances to Elsa soon after she had swallowed the love philtre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch] Reference

The nurse firmly believes that Adrian Baker has bewitched her; he has diffused through her blood a diabolical philtre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by Foreign Authors: Spanish] Reference

Circean philtre of sweet sunbrewed wine, sparkling with rainbow bubbles and gleaming with the mockery of the deathless gods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] 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

“Ah, kind Master Dion,” began Niobe, for the sixth time, “if only some philtre could make Procles loath that abominable Jocasta!”.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Victor of Salamis] Reference

In the book was a Latin recipe for drying the poor wryneck, and using him as a philtre which should compel the love of any person desired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hereward, the Last of the English] Reference

Yes, Life and the Life-Lovers are enamoured still of these exquisite witches, these philtre-bearers, these Sirens, these children of Circe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference