Their symboled fire showed One Whose spirit on the altar of the world Burns ceaselessly,-where, if all vice be hurled, It shall be purged with fire that shall atone,- Christ's love the flame, man's sin th' alchemic stone.
"Pan and Aeolus: Poems"
Charles Hamilton Musgrove
On first coming to herself she did not remember them, but, content to find me by her side-for there is something so alchemic in a mother's love that I doubt not my presence changed her garret to a palace-she spent herself in feeble caresses and broken words.
"Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France"
Stanley J. Weyman
All the morning his alchemic forces had been quietly transmuting gray mists of midnight, vapors from damp humus, moisture from lush leaves and I know not what other pure though common elements into the precious glow that began to haze the west soon after noon.
"Old Plymouth Trails"
Winthrop Packard