alembic
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Although he relished putting his life into his art, he boiled life in his poet’s alembic at a pretty high temperature, and much of the who, when, and how was volatilized away.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 2, 2017
London’s smallest museum and gin symposium lab, The Ginstitute, houses a unique collection of gin related memorabilia including Jerry Thomas’ business card and is home to a 30L alembic still, named Copernicus the Second.
From Forbes ● Apr. 17, 2015
There was, in him, such a simmer of emotions, like chemicals thrown together in an alembic: fear like a sulfur fog, bitterness as sharp as salt, and damned fickle mercury for failure and desperation.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
It is the philosophy whose purest essence may be found distilled in Browning's magical alembic, and a single drop of it will affect the brain of some people with a strange giddiness.
From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by Paul Elmer More
I then turned my attention to a receiver, connected by a worm with an alembic on the furnace.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by W. Harrison Ainsworth
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