A Philter 'twas, that darted pain Thro every pleas'd and trembling vein.
The sole philter I ever used was kissing and embracing, by which alone I made men rave like beasts, stupefied and compelled them to worship me like an idol.
This valuable philter was not to be sent to the party till the next day.
Desperate certainly she was when she dared even to think of giving a love philter to a minister.
The philter was promised to have effect in making the drinker love profoundly the first person of opposite sex whom he or she saw after drinking it; and of course the minister saw Hannah as she stood waiting for his empty tankard.
I have been applied to by Sir Francis for a philter to be administered to Mistress Aveline, and I have promised it to him; but I am secretly in the service of Clement Lanyere, and will defeat the old usurer's villainous designs.
Dissembling her aversion as well as she could, and assuming looks very foreign to her feelings, she easily succeeded in persuading him that the philterhad taken effect, and that all obstacles to his happiness were removed.
Nevertheless my companion promised Madame Rose a philter with a marvelous power of causing jealousy, and the dear soul went away, overjoyed to know that she might still hope to drive her husband frantic.
Poor Gerard could stand it no longer; the philter was working; colic and headache appeared.
But see what the world is: I sell much less of this philter than of the others; indeed it rarely happens that the same person takes it twice.
I am now making a philter to arouse love; it is not very difficult to make, for all I need is tonics, alcohol and stimulants.
As for the philter of which Monsieur Rose had drunk, all the ladies begged for a few drops of it for their private use, thinking that, when thus divided, it could not fail to produce very pleasant results.
By the side of a rock, which hill him from Nefert, he paused, set the cup on a flat block of stone, and drew the flask with the philter out of his girdle.
As soon as he was alone Paaker drew the philter from his girdle, looked at it tenderly, and put it in a box, in which there were several flasks of holy oils for sacrifice.
Philter disdainfully, strong in his social superiority, which was based upon an occasional condescending invitation to the house of some great man whom his supple quill had served; "and pray by whom are you told?
At one table sat a little group of fashionable gentlemen, including a brace of peers and a baronet; at another a knot of pamphleteers, in which Mr. Philter was conspicuous by the loudness of his voice and the arrogance of his opinions.
He told Vincenti the story exactly asPhilter had told it to him.
The three men left the tavern together, Tom Philter highly elated at being seen in the company of a man of Lavendale's rank and fashion.
And having hiccoughed out this boast, Mr. Philter wiped his wine-stained lips and departed.
It was after midnight, but Philter never refused a drink, so he accepted Lavendale's invitation to a bottle of some particularly choice Burgundy which had been laid down by his lordship's father.
Lavendale ordered a bowl of punch, and presently invited Mr. Philter to his table, who made no difficulty about leaving his friend Ludderly, and came over at once, charmed to hob and nob with a lord.
They dined at adjacent tables, and Herrick invited Mr. Philterto join him in a pint of claret when his steak was despatched.
I doubt by the time she had survived her passion for Lord Rivers she had exhausted her regard for his offspring," said Philter carelessly.
She and her lover had been interrupted by Mr. Philter before they could complete their plans; yet she was not less resolved upon flight.
Little Tom Philter had been bidden, as a man who must be tolerated occasionally, lest he should spit venom at one's fair name in the newspapers.
I had thoughts of starting a journal upon the same model, and flatter myself that with a smart fellow like Philter to help me, as Addison helped poor Dick, I could have run the Tatler hard.
The music was a love-philter to Forbes and Persis; they could not escape it, had no thought of escape.
I was light in myself, and by virtue of the magic philter thrown into my eyes the snows on my forehead melted away.
Did you not give Richelieu a philter to make the drinker fail madly in love?
Or had the love-philter set him in the place of Mena?
Dejanira, being jealous, anointed the robe with the philter she had received from Nessus.
No sooner was Gunnar wedded than the power of the philter ceased to operate: he remembered all that had passed, and the oath he had sworn to the fair Brynhildr.
The philter will work: from the moment I catch his eye, he is mine!
And this philteris to make me mistress of your heart, King Louis!
The lock of hair was obtained by Marshal Luxemburg, who bribed the valet of his majesty; the philter was prepared for the Countess de Soissons.
Did Johanna know that through De Luxemburg's efforts Louis's valet had been bribed to rob him of a lock of his hair, without which the precious philter could never have been distilled?
I feel the glow of the philter as it courses through my veins, warming the blood that shall mantle in my cheeks, kindling the fire that shall flash from my eyes!
How could she "add thephilter to the drink of one who loved her not"?
And the magic philter which you drank in that Gallic wine will put you at my mercy, quiet as a corpse.
Was I still under the influence of the philter poured into the wine?
Monavius discourseth at large in an epistle of his to Acolsius, giving instance in a Bohemian baron that was so troubled by a philter taken.
As for herbs and philters, I could never skill of them, "The sole philter that ever I used was kissing and embracing, by which alone I made men rave like beasts stupefied, and compelled them to worship me like an idol.
Aphonsi, hath a story of one Stephan, a Neapolitan knight, that by a philter was forced to run mad for love.
You had better tell the woman that the philter must be given by your own hands, and that you must then watch alone by her side for half an hour.
Say that after you leave her she will soon go off to sleep; and must then be left absolutely alone till daybreak tomorrow, and it will then be found that thephilter has acted.
The mistress of the zenana, who wants to get rid of you, as she fears you might obtain influence over the Nana, has asked the girl to obtain from her father a philter which will make you odious to him.
All has gone well," she said; "your father's philter is powerful indeed.
When she had thanked him for his promise of renewing her letter of freedom, and had confirmed the statement that Paaker had had a love-philter from her, she parted her hair from off her face--it occurred to her that she was a woman.
It is Philterwho is wilful and reluctant, not Venus who is unkind.
Can fortune have been so lavish, and can destiny have been so blind, when your obedient servant Thomas Philter still sighs and worships at the shrine of beauty a miserable bachelor?
Tom Philter was the only other loiterer, and those spindleshanks of his were to carry him back to Gray's Inn Lane.
And guessing that thephilter was poison, and fearing to awaken the Queen's suspicions, you feigned readiness to accept the mission of death?
Now, my little beauty, the philter contained in this vial, is put together by Ruggieri, my alchemist, under the conjunction of marvelously favorable planets.
Sincere love is the only philter that can effect prodigies," Anna Bell sighed as she answered.
Never was philter formed with such power To charm and bewilder as this we are quaffing; Its magic began when, in Autumn's rich hour, A harvest of gold in the fields it stood laughing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "philter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
