elixir vitae
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It had gathered up from the marsh this tonic of the tides, this elixir vitae which all the doctors of the world have sought in vain.
From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop
From this sprang the search, so long continued and still pursued, for the elixir vitae, or water of life, which has led thousands to pretend to it and millions to believe in it.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Mackay, Charles
The elixir vitae," said he, "is no charmed potion, but merely a concentration of those elements of vitality which nature has scattered through her works.
From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Irving, Washington
A few years afterward, in "A Virtuoso's Collection," the elixir vitae is introduced, "in an antique sepulchral urn," but the narrator refuses to quaff it.
From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons
Dee, at the same time, pretended to be in possession of the elixir vitae, which he stated he had found among the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey, in Somersetshire.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Mackay, Charles
