elixir vitae
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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
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
He was thought to possess a knowledge of all the sciences, and, like Artephius, to have discovered the elixir vitae.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Mackay, Charles
The "Mosses from an Old Manse" supply another link in this train of reflection; for "The Virtuoso's Collection" includes some of the elixir vitae "in an antique sepulchral urn."
From Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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
