elixir vitae
Example Sentences
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Not less singular were his opinions in regard to the elixir vitae.
From Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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.
From A Rent In A Cloud by Charles James Lever
"No. I was giving her the true elixir vitae, unknown even to the Rosicrucians."
From Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 by George MacDonald
Dee, at the same time, pretended to be in possession of the elixir vitae, which he stated he had found among the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey, in Somersetshire.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Charles Mackay
Our vaunted elixir vitae is the art of printing.
From A Cynic Looks at Life by E. (Emanuel) Haldeman-Julius
