The alembic is a kind of still that has been used since ancient times and continues to be used even today in the production of cognac. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?Jul.10.2008]
Gilbert White's phrase, forms the best "alembic" for distilling water from fog at all times of the year. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference
The meat of them has been transmuted in the alembic of. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 35] Reference
He had an alembic of his own which made old things new. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
Thus is Art, a nature passed through the alembic of man. From Wordnik.com. [Nature] Reference
Facts transmuted in the alembic of hope into terms of faith. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 37] Reference
"Are you telling me you don't have an alembic?" she demanded. From Wordnik.com. [A Darker Place]
This is the crucible from which is distilled the alembic of power. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
The raw plant is placed into a sealed alembic and sits above water. From Wordnik.com. [Home Herbal Preparations: Essential Oil Extraction] Reference
Oriental eye and finger in the alembic of Western Europe and the New. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
The mysterious human mind was the alembic then, as it is for us now. From Wordnik.com. [Marilynne Robinson: Religion, Science and the Ultimate Nature of Reality] Reference
I repel them as calumnies double-distilled in the alembic of slavery. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
"Dost thou smell the paradisiacal odor which cometh from the alembic?". From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Mercenary]
Chemicals in every grade of purity spoke the potency of the German alembic. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference
It offered an alembic in which ideas could be shared, alchemized, and expanded upon. From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: If You Could Change Any Aspect of The Science Fiction Field, What Would it Be?] Reference
On the hearth stood a glowing charcoal brazier with an alembic distilling some potion. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
It is chuck full of ambiguity distilled through the alembic of intellectual chicanery. From Wordnik.com. [A Question] Reference
For the wealthy, the water may be distilled in an alembic, if such an apparatus is obtainable. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference
She had, after all, told him that it was up to him to talk about his experience in the alembic. From Wordnik.com. [A Darker Place]
She glanced at the page, and saw that he was staring at the drawing of a fifteenth-century alembic. From Wordnik.com. [A Darker Place]
Homeric brain of the great Goethe had sucked up, as an alembic, all the juice of the forbidden fruit. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Glen, I think Change uses an alembic big enough for a man as part of their process of transformation. From Wordnik.com. [A Darker Place]
I passed her through my alembic and what did I find? this thought, crouching at the bottom of her heart. From Wordnik.com. [Modeste Mignon] Reference
She knew Jonas had to have a human-sized alembic in the cellars, behind one of those three locked doors. From Wordnik.com. [A Darker Place]
The alembic in the top was about eighteen inches high and had some unidentifiable blackened mass inside. From Wordnik.com. [A Darker Place]
"It was part of the learning process, that the artifex might be aligned with the product in his alembic.". From Wordnik.com. [A Darker Place]
Alchemical drawings depict this union as a king and a queen lying together in the coffin of their alembic. From Wordnik.com. [A Darker Place]
She had thought Jason locked inside an alembic; instead, he had been set the task of a medieval apprentice. From Wordnik.com. [A Darker Place]
It is the alembic in which offences are dissolved into thin air, and a calm indifference reigns in their stead. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
It would all be worth it if he could only reduce the universe, all the millennia of creation, into this alembic in front of him. From Wordnik.com. [A Darker Place]
Emerging from the glass alembic, a gust of wind immediately filled his small sail, sending its thrusting curve billowing outward. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
When the fluoride is quite dry, it is quickly introduced into a platinum alembic, which has just been dried by heating it to redness. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886] Reference
America may be the only last? alembic where the battle between a Soviet Obama statist Euro-style nightmare can be defeated by free people. From Wordnik.com. [Belmont Club » Double Down] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference
Was not the world's alembic, Time, in his young hands, and is not my time waning?. From Wordnik.com. [The Souls of Black Folk] Reference
In short, you have put my extravagant materials in an alembic, and drawn off only what was rational. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
Sir Everard gradually, and drop by drop, as it were, distilled through the cool and procrastinating alembic of Dyer's 'Weekly. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 1] Reference
The principal component parts were burnt wine and rosemary, passed through an alembic; a drachm of it was to be taken once a week. From Wordnik.com. [The Romany Rye] Reference
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