elixir vitae

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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

Ginotti, whose name is stolen from a brigand in Zofloya, is not the devil but one of his sworn henchmen, who has discovered and tasted the elixir vitae.

From The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance by Birkhead, Edith

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 Lever, Charles James

The air at this height is pure elixir vitae.

From The Great Amulet by Diver, Maud

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