elixir vitae
Example Sentences
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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
"At all events, you make something of yourself, to talk of your own productions as the elixir vitae."
From Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 by MacDonald, George
"No. I was giving her the true elixir vitae, unknown even to the Rosicrucians."
From Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 by MacDonald, George
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
