Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the quotation, the juice of the flower love-in-idleness, the application of which to sleeping eyes was supposed to cause love for the first living object seen after awaking.
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Examples
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Oberon uses this verse pattern as well, when he applies love-juice to the lovers 'eyes; and when he and Titania are reconciled, she answers his rhymed trochaic tetrameters in kind.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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"Enough for this time, I think," gasped Mamma, as she pressed me in her arms, and tried all she knew, with the inner folds of her vagina, to squeeze our the very last drop of my young love-juice.
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And laid the love-juice on some true-loves sight:
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The spell of the love-juice was on her, and to her the clown seemed the most beautiful and delightful creature on all the earth.
The Junior Classics — Volume 5 William Patten 1902
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The spell of the love-juice was on her, and to her the clown seemed the most beautiful and delightful creature on all the earth.
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Oberon then softly drew near his Titania, and dropped some of the love-juice on her eyelids, saying: What thou seest when thou wake
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Oberon had learnt by some questions he had asked of Puck, that he had applied the love-charm to the wrong person's eyes; and now having found the person first intended, he touched the eyelids of the sleeping Demetrius with the love-juice, and he instantly awoke; and the first thing he saw being
Tales from Shakespeare Mary Lamb 1805
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Oberon had learnt by some questions he had asked of Puck, that he had applied the love-charm to the wrong person's eyes; and now having found the person first intended, he touched the eyelids of the sleeping Demetrius with the love-juice, and he instantly awoke; and the first thing he saw being Helena, he, as Lysander had done before, began to address love-speeches to her; and just at that moment Lysander, followed by
Tales from Shakespeare Mary Lamb 1805
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Oberon then softly drew near his Titania, and dropped some of the love-juice on her eyelids, saying:
Tales from Shakespeare Mary Lamb 1805
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Oberon then softly drew near his Titania, and dropped some of the love-juice on her eyelids, saying, --
Tales from Shakespeare Mary Lamb 1805
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