Why, there was a girl once gave myself a philtre that kept me raving for six months.
She was concocting a philtre to make a girl happy,--herself.
The subject of Grímnismál is a visit paid by Othin in disguise to a king named Geirröðr, who tortures him.
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But it cannot possibly be true that he was present at Attila's court, where we find him in the Edda and in German poetry, much less that he had any dealings with Eormenric.
For this Isabelle received a substantial price, seventy livres parisis, and was given a similar order for a philtre to recover the affections of the Count de la Marche for his wife Blanche.
By a fatal error, it was to Tristan and Iseut that the philtre was given during the voyage; and from that time an invincible passion drew them toward each other.
Wagner could scarcely have used the myth and the names of Tristan and Isolde without introducing the philtre with which they have always been associated.
She suggests administering the philtre which her mother has prepared for Marke to Tristan.
On certain days set or waited for, the bold youth would attempt the stroke, recommended him by the Witch, of mingling a philtre with her drink.
You administered the philtre to the maid and neglected my instructions to offer yourself to her at once.
Several times did he return thus, for as it chanced Elsa had been unwell and kept her room, so that he discovered no opportunity of administering the magic philtre that was to cause her heart to burn with love for him.
I suppose that Black Meg fetched you," went on Adrian, sticking to his point, for the philtre fiasco had made him suspicious.
That cursed philtre of yours has worked all wrong, that's what it is.
I gave you the philtre in your drinking water, and Foy, the traitor Foy, has reaped its fruits.
Philtre thou shalt have, but remember it often turns to madness those you seek to win.
Who shall withstand the philtre Endora of Hecate brews?
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.
The Roman was aflame with love, and wrapped in a mantle of jealousy, since he had received the philtre from her hands which was destined for Chios.
He had corrupted the chastest women in England by means of the love-philtre which Dr.
In her joy and relief that the ordeal was over and the philtre gained, she knew no doubt, no suspicion.
I speak without motive," he added, bowing, "for Madame de Vidoche can never have need of other philtre than her eyes.
You can buy a philtre that can draw her love, and send her a jar of magic sweets.
SELIM (Rising and taking dinars) Do not make me chargeable, O Hassan, if the philtre is without effect.
The philtre poured out by her cool white hand had been of that rare flavour which makes all other beverages tasteless.
The thought that her grandsire had pardoned and remembered her was a philtre of health and strength to her.
In Tristan it is not essential that thephiltre is a true love-philtre, but here the case is different.
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.
The love-philtre in this report sounds apocryphal; and the story of the madness and suicide attributes too edifying an end to an atheist and Epicurean not to be suspected.
These Sumatra people know other things besides making silks and daggers, and Nakhôdah Ma’win had a love-philtre of the most potent kind.
Rub some of the philtre on a chicken’s beak; if it is really potent, the chicken will follow you wherever you go!
He decreed that "on New Year's Day there should be brewed for her as many jars of philtre as there were priestesses of the sun.
Go and tell him that Mother Goodhugh has come to ask thee about thy love affairs, and the philtre she gave thee.
I could give her a philtre that would turn her own love for this gallant to hate, and so comfort her poor suffering heart.
My soul again that echo hears, "Give me the philtre of thy lips!
Still falls upon my inward ears, "Give me the philtre of thy lips!
Comes echoing through the ghostly years "Give me the philtre of thy lips!
In the latter the philtre performs the office of Fate in the ancient Greek tragedy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "philtre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
