elixir vitae
Example Sentences
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While they paid all due attention to other branches of science, they never neglected the pursuit of the philosopher's stone and the elixir vitae.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Mackay, Charles
Be sure that a medieval alchemist, searching in vain for elixir vitae, or the philosopher's stone, chanced upon this infernal synthesis and fusion.
From The Grey Room by Phillpotts, Eden
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
Not less singular were his opinions in regard to the elixir vitae.
From Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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
