ELIXIR in a Sentence

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For ELIXIR, below is one of 10 sentences:
He was a quack dentist on his rounds, who was offering to the public full sets of teeth, opiates, powders and elixirs.

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 Meanings and Examples of ELIXIR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
elixir
 n.  substance believed to cure all ills
Classic Sentence:
1  an elixir the notion of God, to make conscience and science fraternize.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
2  Gillenormand, Catherine the Second had made reparation for the crime of the partition of Poland by purchasing, for three thousand roubles, the secret of the elixir of gold, from Bestucheff.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT
3  He would have been greatly irritated and thrown off his balance, had any one told him that the elixir of gold is nothing but the perchloride of iron.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT
4  Under the guidance of my new preceptors I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life; but the latter soon obtained my undivided attention.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
5  At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I was conscious of going about, smelling like a new fence.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
6  He was a quack dentist on his rounds, who was offering to the public full sets of teeth, opiates, powders and elixirs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
Example Sentence:
1  The Charlatan claimed that his elixir would rejuvenate the aged and weary.
2  The news of her chance to go abroad acted on her like an elixir.
3  The air of the moors, the freedom of home, the dawn of prosperity, acted on Diana and Mary's spirits like some life-giving elixir: they were gay from morning till noon, and from noon till night.
4  The current new wave of technology should prove an economic elixir.