elixir vitae

But strictly in moderation and under exceptional circumstances it is a medicine, a luxury, an elixir vitae.

As well from the indefatigable ardor he showed, as from the occasional bursts of boastful triumph in anticipation of a great success in store, his poor ailing wife had grown to fancy that his pursuit was something akin to those wonderful researches after the elixir vitae, or the philosopher's stone.

As to the search for the elixir vitae, it's a dull realism after the attempts I have witnessed for years to get money out of myself.

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.

I could hold out no longer, but with a convulsive heaving of my whole body, I emitted a profusion of the elixir vitae.