Given her previously voiced views on Alex Goddard, I doubted she would endorse anypotions he might dispense.
The physicians who revered him held that sickness could be cured using drugs and potions that came from outside the body, since they believed that's where disease originated.
He drank potions and he swallowed powders and he used unguents, but naught did him good and none among the host of physicians availed to procure him a cure.
Peter Cnemander in a consultation of his pro hypocondriaco, will have his patient continually loose, and to that end sets down there many forms of potions and clysters.
Some rather use potions than pills to purge this humour, because that as Heurnius and Crato observe, hic succus a sicco remedio agre trahitur, this juice is not so easily drawn by dry remedies, and as Montanus adviseth 25 cons.
The poor, or any sick and sorry folk, are the first to be considered, or perhaps there is some wounded knight, who has sought shelter within the protecting walls of the castle, for whom soothing potions or healing salves have to be compounded.
We have been asked by such deserted wives to enclose love potions or medicine in letters to win back the love of the husbands.
When sick, their physicians are their masters and overseers, in most cases, whose skill consists in bleeding and in administering large potions of Epsom salts, when the whip and cursing will not start them from their cabins.
A man once came to him, of whom he said he was suspicious: he gave him two potions of salts, and fastened him in the stocks for the night.
They made potions which excited love and potions which destroyed it; charms to turn love into hate, and others to convert hate into love.
If it were so, I might haue let alone The insulting hand of Dowglas ouer you, Which would haue bene as speedy in your end, As all the poysonous Potions in the world, And sau'd the Treacherous labour of your Sonne K.
Meane time, I writ to Romeo, That he should hither come, as this dyre night, To helpe to take her from her borrowed graue, Being the time the Potions force should cease.
They told her that she must give up this pathetic lock of hair, that she retained it to brew love potions and such abominations.
But for the most part the Grävenitz's potions were harmless absurdities, yet she believed, and so did others, in their efficacy.
CXIX What potions have I drunk of Siren tears, Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within, Applying fears to hopes, and hopes to fears, Still losing when I saw myself to win!
Stay; although I confess that I have left the witchery of philtres and potions to those whose trade is in such knowledge, yet am I myself not so dull to beauty but that in earlier youth I may have employed them in my own behalf.
Instead of showing you the ghosts, she gives you cabalistic words and powerfulpotions to bring them back in your dreams.
Old Wynoc's potions loiter in my veins, And tides of heaviness pour over me Each time I wake and think.
Having warbled his thanks and put the potions in his boots, Hugo departed, and Hagar informed the audience that as he had killed a few of her friends in times past, she had cursed him, and intends to thwart his plans, and be revenged on him.
Born of roses, fed on dew, Charms and potionscanst thou brew?
She hears him coming and hides, sees him put the potions into two cups of wine and bid the timid little servant, "Bear them to the captives in their cells, and tell them I shall come anon.
As Love Potions (Baptiste's Stories)] Another story: for love potionsor philters are also composed of this.
He bore it obstinately, however, for some hours, taking the potions by his bedside, within even less than the prescribed intervals, but finding no relief.
Valeria can do more with one glance of her bright eyes, than all thepotions and poisons of Galanthis put together.
The evil smile crossed the tribune's face once more; perhaps he too had been indebted to the potions of Galanthis, for purposes of love or hate, and he did not care to be reminded of them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "potions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
