elixir vitae
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The air at this height is pure elixir vitae.
From The Great Amulet by Maud Diver
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
He could not have made it all by the sale of his elixir vitae in Germany; though, no doubt, some portion of it was derived from that source.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Charles Mackay
Continuing his travels, he proceeded through Prussia and Austria into Turkey, Egypt, and Tatary, and thence returning to Constantinople, learned, as he boasted, the art of transmutation, and became possessed of the elixir vitae.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Charles Mackay
Its adherents appear to have imbibed their notions from the Arabians, and claimed the possession of the philosopher's stone, the art of transmuting metals, and the elixir vitae.
From Lives of the Necromancers by William Godwin
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