| 单词 | alembic |
| 例句 | Although he relished putting his life into his art, he boiled life in his poet’s alembic at a pretty high temperature, and much of the who, when, and how was volatilized away. The Books We’re Turning to Now 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z It’s distilled from Fijian sugar cane in both alembic and column stills and aged for no less than two years in bourbon casks on Fiji. An Around the World Kind of Rum 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Minutes weren’t measured in seconds, but in “alembic time parsecs.” Pedro Bell, artist who created Funkadelic's cosmic album covers, dies at 69 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z In his chemistry lab, a short walk from the history department, the cabinets are full of alembics, retorts and other bulbous glass devices. This chemist is unlocking the secrets of alchemy 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z There’s also an alembic — a piece of equipment used to distil chemicals — along with common plants and charismatic megafauna such as pandas. I can haz more science emoji? Host of nerd icons proposed 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z It is the philosophy whose purest essence may be found distilled in Browning's magical alembic, and a single drop of it will affect the brain of some people with a strange giddiness. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z It was formed by Lacaille, and is supposed to represent a chemical furnace with an alembic and receiver! Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z The world's hate is their alembic of purification. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z The cap or head was the alembic proper. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z I submit, therefore, with the brevity, and I hope also the simplicity, that should characterize the historic style, the essence of the matter as it has dropped from my alembic. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z In the alembic of Shakespeare's brain the baser metals were turned to gold—passions became virtues—weeds became exotics from some diviner land—and common mortals made of ordinary clay outranked the Olympian Gods. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z As in a chemist's alembic, he fused and tried our Constitution and all our history. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z So unsparingly has it been subjected to the alembic of the poet-dramatist's imagination that it has been wholly purged of all that is superfluous and distracting, all that cannot be gratefully assimilated by the music. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z Through the alembic of the composer's art this gruesome theme emerges ablaze with a terrible glory. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z In the alembic of Shakespeare's brain the baser metals were turned to gold—passions became virtues—weeds became exotics, from some diviner land—and common mortals made of ordinary clay outranked the Olympian Gods. Shakespeare A Lecture 2011-11-24T03:00:42.050Z For, says Baron Liebig, we cannot reckon upon results in the human stomach with the same regularity as we would in the alembics of our laboratories. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z Another of the masked men opened a curious little casket that I perceived was surmounted by an alembic and other alchemical figures, and embossed with an Oriental design. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z In the alembic of his genius truth became beauty; the mortal, the immortal. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z The brain is the alembic to which the Animal conveys what each of its organizations, in proportion to the strength of that vessel, can absorb of that Substance, which returns it transformed into Will. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z They stood the test of public scrutiny, because they had been refined in the alembic of his own severe and critical mind. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z Simple, good Jane Taylor would not recognise her pretty fable as it comes from Browning’s alembic in the form of Rephan. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z But though in some sense her work was portraiture, it was portraiture passed through the alembic of her brilliant genius, from commonplace material distilled into the finest essence. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z Brother, yet great thy power; Thou stood'st as on a tower Small 'neath the stars yet high above the fields; In thy alembic song Imagination strong Distilled what essences the quest to mortals yields. The Three Hills And other Poems 2011-07-07T02:00:25.437Z The creatures who placed the alembics there to distil death, trusted to the faint hearts of the Parisians to escape inspection; but they counted without their Charles de Valois. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Toward the right front is a furnace with alembics, retorts, etc.; right and left are doors, and on the left and back another alcove before which hang curtains. The Immortal Lure 2011-07-06T02:00:50.730Z Doctor Lamb was plying the bellows at the furnace, on which a large alembic was placed, and he was so engrossed by his task that he scarcely noticed the entrance of the others. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z You must think my alembic a nice one indeed, since you bid me to the analysis of those subtle and finely mingled forces. Modern Society 2011-06-23T02:00:27.897Z Inside the distilleries, stills that consisted of copper alembics 3 to 5 feet high were arranged in rows and rested atop a furnace built of bricks. Stop and Smell the Attar: Rose Oil Extraction in Bulgaria and France 2011-05-10T19:45:07.317Z The German mystic, though ingenious and laborious, is also tepid, pretentious, insecure; half terrified at his own timid audacities, half choked by the fumes of his own alembic. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z From the alembic a strange cloud arose, And once again her face!... The Immortal Lure 2011-07-06T02:00:50.730Z I then turned my attention to a receiver, connected by a worm with an alembic on the furnace. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z The life principle escapes before the alembic or retort is brought into requisition. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Can you see him, as he sits watching the alembic wherein the toil of years is bubbling, and not weave within your own mind the life-long conflict he has sustained? The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Here follow the “Proverbs of Hell,” which give us the quintessence and the most fine gold of Blake’s alembic. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z Mete out the sulphur Into the alembic Of Cleopatra's crystal.—I must see her! The Immortal Lure 2011-07-06T02:00:50.730Z The fireplace was occupied by the furnace, on which, as has been stated, was placed an alembic, communicating by means of a long serpentine pipe with a receiver. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z This is the centre of the heart of modern civilisation, the middle of the greatest city in the world—the vast, seething alembic of a grand future, the stately monument of a deathless past. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z First of all, I submit to my philosophic alembic the brains of a canon. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z He inherited a little patrimony, and sank it all in alembics and chemical retorts. The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z The maxims of religion, faith, hope, and charity, are not passed through the alembic of logical proof before they are admitted into the daily practice of women. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams The story told in these quaint words was, without any doubt, read by Shakespeare, and in the alembic of his imagination grew into the immortal play. A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland The sea was motionless, like a distilled elixir in a serrated alembic. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories Well now, let me submit the enemies of the Reformation to the alembic in order to ascertain what there is in their composition to render them so very refractory.' The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z I have melted down the phrase in the alembic of thought. On the Heights A Novel The two dialogues we possessed were analysed, decomposed, subjected to the intellectual alembic, in every way and in every detail. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 Soon he became annoyed, in time his annoyance crystallised into anger, and eventually, passing through the alembic of professional discretion, it became distilled into a determination to teach this man a lesson. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle The leaves, moreover, of all plants are alembics, and some of those in the torrid zone have the remarkable property of distilling water, thus contributing to prevent the earth from becoming parched up. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Having distilled my gallant in my alembic I found that his bowels contained large chunks of church benefices, which had fattened him so much that he almost burst in his hose. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z There is something of transmutation in his performances; he becomes an alembic, transforming movement into a finely wrought and beautiful work of art. Interpreters Eric begged leave to seek him there, and found him among the alembics and retorts of his laboratory. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine This wine is nothing more than skimmed milk, subjected for awhile to vinous fermentation, and distilled through a rude apparatus that does the office of an alembic. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] The golden ore was passing through the alembic of adversity. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia These memories Bacon sought in alembics, Thomas Aquinas in ink. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Here, in his floral sanctuary, one may take deep draughts from the warm subtly-scented air till, someway or other, it is transmuted into the alembic of the soul. Seeds of Pine For him it would be the ashes of forgotten fire, the strange alembic mixed of bitter with the sweet. Old Crow Zosimus, the Panopolitan, had described in former times the operation of distillation, by which water may be purified; the Arabs called the apparatus for conducting that experiment an alembic. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Herbert rose hastily to his feet, and the next moment he was in the cell, looking eagerly round upon the crucibles and alembics, which bore witness to his master's labors. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. I found it where Lully buried it six hundred years ago, the lid waxed over, and stamped with an alembic and the man's own family coat of arms. The Recipe for Diamonds But the real and proper palm-wine is made from the same liquor before it turns sour, by distilling it in an alembic in ovens that they have prepared for it. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century What a noble privilege to pour treasures of knowledge into the alembic of the brain, and separate the gold from the dross! Flowers of Freethought (First Series) Thus is Art, a nature passed through the alembic of man. Nature Doubt, despair, passion, become blossoms plucked by the hand of God when transmuted in the alembic of the brain of genius—which is not saying that he need experience any of these passions himself. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning The occasional voluptuousness of the music was so transmuted in the alembic of his temperament that for him the sensual element was eliminated. War Letters of a Public-School Boy Their lips are red with the kisses of love, in whose alembics, intangible, 183 unseen, the dark and damp of the earth are translated into warmth and colour and shade. The Book of Khalid Put it into an alembic with three gallons of water, draw it off gently so long as the saffron tastes, and sweeten it with white sugar candy. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families A French physician, who travelled in China, says he never saw an alembic or distillatory apparatus in the whole country. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton It is only the slow alembic of the years that finally eliminates from this vast mass of literature its few immortal drops, and leaves the rest to perish. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Arabic.—Admiral, alchemist, alchemy, alcohol, alcove, alembic, algebra, alkali, assassin. A Handbook of the English Language It was rather studious, anxious, critical, almost fierce, like that one would expect to find on the face of an ancient alchemist contemplating an alembic of precious compounds. Too Old for Dolls A Novel Some potent alembic has destroyed the force of this word, although the text remains as of old. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II My travelling fund had melted away in the alembic of cafés, theatres, masquerades, and “quadroon” balls. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Distilled in the alembic of the stomach, the life destroyed by slaughter becomes so much fresh life. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles "The Dutchman is a living alembic," writes Diderot; and it does really seem as though smoking is to him one of the necessary functions of life. Holland, v. 1 (of 2) The fusing of the Greek brain and the Oriental eye and finger in the alembic of Western Europe and the New World will still continue to be attempted. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 It subjects clear predictions to an exegetical alembic that effectually subtilizes and evaporates their meaning.”—Bush. A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse The crop of corn that he had bought with the farm had served him until now as feed for the mule, as meal and hominy, and, by the alchemy of the alembic, as whisky. A Tar-Heel Baron But what would be insanity or criminal cruelty in the case of man, becomes, in the alembic of religious apologetic, goodness and wisdom in God. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative And gold they prove, when submitted to the test of the alembic. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea There were things there that strangely seemed to have no smell at all; but grown in such rank masses, they contributed mysteriously to the alembic of the year. Country Neighbors Scent to match thy rich perfume— Chemic art did ne'er presume, Through her quaint alembic strain, None so sov'reign to the brain. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce Limbeck has been squeezed out by the orthodox alembic— "Memory the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason A limbeck only." The Romance of Words (4th ed.) This is the crucible from which is distilled the alembic of power. The Life Radiant Without his knowledge, she proceeded to actual experiment with rude crucible and alembic in her own chamber. The Thing from the Lake Oh! that alembic fever of interwed Desire and dream and sense, rapture and rue! The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence But in all these complicated alembics no one has ever arrived at distilling a drop of veritable joy. The Simple Life Milk or tea, cocoa or coffee, poor commonplace liquids, are they not transmuted in the alembic of a bedroom fire, till they become nepenthe for a heartache or a philtre for romance? The Nebuly Coat So—as it is a known fact that politicians are never satisfied—the Cabinet and Congress, as tried in the hotel alembic, were not found pure gold. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death He had an alembic of his own which made old things new. My Contemporaries In Fiction If it be so, the vaporising process must be a much more subtile one than any that could be performed in our alembics, for the comet's substance is already all vapour before the distillation commences. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852 The floor was strewed with retorts, crucibles, alembics, jars, and bottles of various shapes, inter-mingled with old books. Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Tortured in the human alembic, she was at length resolved, seeing with a vision that pierced all her horizons. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Homer was scanned with a patience unknown to college students and the classic myths were refined in the alembics of master minds. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 But there came a day when the flames burst forth, and all the reserve, poise, quiet dignity, caution and discretion were dissolved into nothingness in love's alembic. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians All these were to be reduced to powder and placed in a glass alembic and dissolved. Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages In Prince William's time, modern Europe was in the alembic, a circumstance which makes his epoch so engrossing to the student of modern history. A Hero and Some Other Folks Is it a laboratory where, with alembic and crucible, the philosopher searches the secrets of alchemy and tries to find the "philosopher's stone?" Rembrandt A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation Probably, in the first instance, an impurity in one of the drugs introduced a foreign substance into the alembic. The Long Night Many a rare character, otherwise long ago consumed in the alembic of time, will long continue to be fondly singled out and studied. The Friendships of Women Every culture is treated in their alembic for the same purpose. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers He was doubtless in debt to St. Paul for these governing conceptions but they took new character as they passed through the alembic of his own experience. Modern Religious Cults and Movements It was Plato distilled through the psychic alembic of Hypatia. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Crucibles and alembics stood in the ashes before the stove, and on a sideboard placed under the window were scattered a set of silver scales, a chemist's mask, and a number of similar objects. The Long Night It is the essence of the earth-odour, distilled in the thousand-fold alembics of those feathery trees. Alec Forbes of Howglen He found a door, but it led into a closet, filled with alembics and other equipment. The Sky Is Falling The sourness of my own discontent was dissolved in the alembic of his joviality. The Quest of the Simple Life The alembic or still was invented by the Arabian alchemists for the purpose of obtaining the essential oil or attar of roses. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries He set up the alembics and pipkins which he had overturned, and here and there he opened a black-lettered folio, discovered an inch or two of crabbed Hebrew, or the corner of an illuminated script. The Long Night But finally some rather too subtle philosophers have extracted from their alembic an inexplicable notion of choice independent of anything whatsoever, which is said to do wonders in solving all difficulties. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil The second are those drawn from vegetables by common distillation in the alembic, with the aid of water; these contain the oily and volatile part of the plant, and are called essential oils. A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. He did not find it necessary to invent new terms to express His thought; but as He passed the old words through the alembic of His mind they came out with new meaning. Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking When the fluoride is quite dry, it is quickly introduced into a platinum alembic, which has just been dried by heating it to redness. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 But what that was which was lacking, or how it had entered into the alembic in the first instance, could not be discovered. The Long Night For the wealthy, the water may be distilled in an alembic, if such an apparatus is obtainable. Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Where I could try him in my own alembic! Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment Distilled water comes next in purity, and is, in fact, identical in character with rain-water; the latter being merely steam, condensed into rain in the great alembic of the sky. The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes Furnaces, alembics, jars, glass urinals, and bottles of all sizes, rendered the chamber perilous of access, save to those who were acquainted with the intricacies of this labyrinth. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Scent to match thy rich perfume Chemic art did ne'er presume, Through her quaint alembic strain, None so sov'reign to the brain. Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry And imagination is the alembic that discovers the significance of the facts. The Reconstructed School I knew that since that night in July the world had tried him in its alembic with its severest tests and that he had emerged safely. Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment It was a small room with a high ceiling and shelves around the walls, on which stood alembics and retorts. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Alchemy, that is, the art of melting, pouring, and transforming, must necessarily pay much attention to working with crucibles, furnaces, alembics, and other vessels wherein things are fused, distilled, calcined, and dissolved. The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry Scent to match thy rich perfume Chemic art did ne'er presume Through her quaint alembic strain, None so sov'reign to the brain. The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 A thousand influences are poured into the alembic of the spirit, and serenity issues forth in modest splendor. The Reconstructed School Chemicals in every grade of purity spoke the potency of the German alembic. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 "No fire can be seen outside, but if you look underneath the alembic, if you place your hand on the hearts of women, in both places you will find a great furnace." Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women He would be transported in fancy to his laboratory, busied again among retorts and alembics, and surrounded by Lully, by D'Abano, by Olybius, and the other masters of the sublime art. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists Metaphors are powerless in astronomy; epithets are useless as alembics; images, be they never so beautiful, will fail to convince the physiologist. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 The war of races is no alembic for beauty of art. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies What need I holier dew Than Walden's haunted wave, Distilled from heaven's alembic blue, Steeped in each forest cave? Poems Household Edition These versions were made by persons utterly unacquainted with the country, the manners, and the people, or made after the Russian had been distilled through the alembic of a previous French or German translation. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 It was strewed with the wrecks of retorts and alembics, with old crucibles, boxes and phials of powders and tinctures, and half-burnt books and manuscripts. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists All our crucibles and alembics leave unaccounted for the great mystery of style. Ralph Waldo Emerson Take one part of gentian-root, two parts of centaury, distil them with ale in an alembic after you have bruised the gentian-roots and infused them well. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy Shall I say that the Ideal is, as it were, the Real distilled and sublimated in the alembic of the imagination? In the Days of My Youth Each ray that spends its burning might In the alembic of the morn, Is, in the Triune splendors, born Of the great uncreated light! The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland Small alembics of copper with a glass capital, may be used in three different ways. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden We seem to look into the very alembic of beauty, and see all the precious elements in the act of combination. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays The floor was covered with retorts, crucibles, alembics, jars, bottles in various shapes, intermingled with old books piled upon each other, with a sufficient quantity of dust and cobwebs. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828 I repel them as calumnies double-distilled in the alembic of slavery. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 When we have admitted this, all dregs and sediments of the analytical alembic sink to the bottom, leaving a clear crystalline elixir of the spirit. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti In the first process, the still or alembic must be mounted on a small brick furnace, and furnished with a worm long enough to pass through a pan of cold water. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden In the alembic of the chemist we may learn analysis, and from it infer, but not imitate, save in a few instances, the synthesis of Nature. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 The venerable Isaac is subjected to an alembic, which will distil from him all he holds dear, without any assistance from my requests or thy entreaty. Ivanhoe Was not the world's alembic, Time, in his young hands, and is not my time waning? The Souls of Black Folk Facts transmuted in the alembic of hope into terms of faith. John Barleycorn It may be noted that the word ``alembic'' is derived from the Greek ambix, ``cup,'' with the Arabic article prefixed, and that the instrument is figured in the MSS. of some of the Greek alchemists. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 It is the alembic in which offences are dissolved into thin air, and a calm indifference reigns in their stead. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Ideal beauty is not the mind's creation: it is real beauty, refined and purified in the mind's alembic, from the alloy which always more or less accompanies it in our mixed and imperfect nature. Nightmare Abbey For to formulate general ideas is to change saltpeter into powder, and the Homeric brain of the great Goethe had sucked up, as an alembic, all the juice of the forbidden fruit. The Confession of a Child of the Century I shall rise from the alembic a saint of their own subliming! Anna St. Ives Scent to match thy rich perfume Chymic art did ne'er presume Through her quaint alembic strain; None so sovran to the brain. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 The electric lights were dissolving in the gray alembic of the dawn. The Greater Inclination Here Reginald Eversleigh beheld stoves, retorts, alembics, distilling apparatus; all the strange machinery of that science which always seems dark and mysterious to the ignorant. Run to Earth A Novel For after you have pared off the husk of the restorer, or bled in your alembic the very juices the craftsman conjured withal, you come down to the seamy wood, and Art is gone. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett He turned his back on these Doctor Wagners, brooding on their alembics to hatch out some homunculus in bottle: and, running away from French music, he sought to enter literary circles and Parisian society. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House It was not the cold visionary expression of the abstract thinker, but a human poetic intelligence, which resolved all things into a spiritual alembic of its own. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne On this stood a number of phials and small boxes, together with several retorts and alembics. At Agincourt They systematised some hasty partial observations, melted them in their alembics, and from them deduced laws to regulate the entire world. Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War Major Decies' face was curiously intent—as of some midnight worker in research who sees a bright near glimpse of the gold his alchemy has so long sought to materialize in the alembic of fact. Snake and Sword A Novel One of the sacred edifices whose form passed through his alembic was Christ Church and to this complexion of a building we have now come. Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston Emerson dissolves England in the alembic of his brain, and makes a thought of that. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 Scorn has she of her master's gear, Cauldron, alembic, crystal sphere, Phial, philtre—"Fiddlededee For all such trumpery trash!" quo' she. Fairies and Fusiliers Another class considered man as a mere chemical engine, and his stomach as an alembic. A Voyage to the Moon Whether he had genius or not we can not say, since genius has never been defined twice alike, nor put in the alembic and resolved into its constituent parts. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers From Arabic we have several mathematical, astronomical, medical and chemical terms as alcohol, alcove, alembic, algebra, alkali, almanac, assassin, azure, cipher, elixir, harem, hegira, sofa, talisman, zenith and zero. How to Speak and Write Correctly Nature has been so filtered through human emotion, so passed and repassed through the alembic of poetic passion, that she has ceased to be natural. Without Prejudice I saw the alembic swaying from side to side in the distant corner it had rolled to, and Michael Robartes watching me and waiting. Rosa Alchemica A small air-furnace with a sand-bath was prepared; and I very soon learned to change the glass alembics, with a piece of burning match-cord, into vessels in which the different mixtures were to be evaporated. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life I regretted my bowing acquaintance with modern science, which forbade my setting up a laboratory with alembics and magic crystals wherewith to conduct experiments for the finding of the Elixir Vitae and the Philosopher's Stone. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel In short, you have put my extravagant materials in an alembic, and drawn off only what was rational. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Then the rich, sure food of mother-milk, the absolute adaptation, the whole great living creature an alembic to gather from without, and distil to sweet perfection, what the child needs. The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) This," taking up a green vial, "contains the quintessence of mandrakes distilled in the alembic when Scorpio rules the hour. The Golden Dog It represents a gloomy cell; in the centre is a table loaded with hideous objects; skulls, spheres, alembics, compasses, hieroglyphic parchments. Notre-Dame De Paris They were the alembics in which thought was fused and crystallized. The Women of the French Salons Then he distils anew in tears, "as liquor out of alembic;" and Pandarus is silent for a while, till he bethinks him to recommend to Troilus the carrying off of Cressida. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems The mouth hath spoken, that the fainting ear may be filled by the return of its words through the alembic of another soul. David Elginbrod Joy's golden drops are only distilled in the alembic of woman's heart! The Golden Dog "Oh, come now," cried the student, gazing in turn at his brother and the alembics on the furnace, "everything is preposterous here, both ideas and bottles!" Notre-Dame De Paris II The brain is the alembic to which the Animal conveys what each of its organizations, in proportion to the strength of that vessel, can absorb of that Substance, which returns it transformed into Will. Louis Lambert Gunpowder issued from our alembics; nay, we have mastered the lightning. Catherine De Medici All about were scattered various pieces of apparatus, test tubes, alembics, retorts, flasks, and an electric furnace. Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters, or, Battling with Flames from the Air Have you really measured the world by scrutinies, or through alembics and crucibles? The Count of Monte Cristo One by one his worlds evaporated, rose beyond his vision as vapours in the hot alembic of the sun, sank for ever beneath sea-levels, themselves unreal and passing as the phantoms of a dream. Jerry of the Islands |
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