Crossword-Solution: ELIXIR 6 letters, 105 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Then a cheer of exultation burst aloud from Johnson's throat; 'Luck at last,' said he, 'I've struck it! 'tis the famous antidote.' 'Here it is, the Grand Elixir, greatest blessing ever known, Twenty thousand men in India die each year of snakes alone.

Bot what man that this werk beginne, 2510 He mot awaite at every tyde, So that nothing be left aside, Ferst of the distillacion, Forth with the congelacion, Solucion, descencion, And kepe in his entencion The point of sublimacion, And forth with calcinacion Of veray approbacion Do that ther be fixacion 2520 With tempred hetes of the fyr, Til he the parfit Elixir Of thilke philosophres Ston Mai gete, of which that many on Of Philosophres whilom write.

Yet you see me much as other men are, with the cursed elixir still sweetening my blood, and guarding me against that which I would court.

The conversation became at once professional after the briefest preliminaries, and he would stand twirling a sweet-scented sprig in his fingers, and make suggestive jokes, perhaps about her faith in a too persistent course of thoroughwort elixir, in which my landlady professed such firm belief as sometimes to endanger the life and usefulness of worthy neighbors.

Pinches, buffets, the glow of hope, the shock of disappointment, furious contention with obstacles: these are the true elixir for all vital spirits, these are what they seek alike in their romantic enterprises and their unromantic dissipations.