elixir vitae
Example Sentences
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By rights the jar should have contained quite a fortnight's supply of his elixir vitae: and it took him one or two seconds to grasp the full significance of that which had befallen him.
From The Great Amulet by Diver, Maud
Not less singular were his opinions in regard to the elixir vitae.
From Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
I throw these old leaves into the elixir vitae of sweet memory, as Dr. Heidegger that old rose into his wonderful crystal water.
From The Book-Bills of Narcissus An Account Rendered by Richard Le Gallienne by Le Gallienne, Richard
He could not have made it all by the sale of his elixir vitae in Germany; though, no doubt, some portion of it was derived from that source.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Mackay, Charles
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
