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Example sentences for "making gold"

  • Well, well, let us first understand the art of making gold, and we will make the whole world our theatre, and all mankind shall play before us!

  • I inquired of a chemist in our town whether he believed in the possibility of making gold.

  • My whole mental energies were concentrated on that one topic--that of making gold.

  • The first meaning, then, of chemistry, was the art of making gold.

  • Alchymy, or the art of making gold, with which the science originated, furnishes too curious a portion of the aberrations of the human intellect to be passed over in silence.

  • Gilding was done by making gold-leaf out of real gold.

  • And if they had in truth learned the art of making gold, it was only another proof of that old and well-tried rule, "He who has, gets.

  • Among the villagers it was said that the physician and his disciple were guarded closely night and day, and that the Paduan certainly would be burned at the stake if he did not succeed in making gold.

  • How much duke Julius, who in other respects did great service to his country, suffered himself to be duped by the art of making gold, appears from an anecdote given by Rehtmeier, p.

  • Many sovereigns endeavoured to retain him at their courts; but he refused to rest until he had discovered the great object of his life -- the art of preserving it for centuries, and of making gold as much as he needed.

  • With regard to the innumerable tricks by which impostors persuaded the world that they had succeeded in making gold, and of which so many stories were current about this period, a very satisfactory report was read by M.

  • His Chrysopeia, in which he pretended to teach the art of making gold, he dedicated to Pope Leo X.

  • Many sovereigns endeavoured to retain him at their courts; but he refused to rest until he had discovered the great object of his life--the art of preserving it for centuries, and of making gold as much as he needed.

  • Thou who hast mercy for mothers on account of the Holy Virgin, Thy mother, watch well over my little Sylvestre, and take from his head this thought of making gold.

  • This basis is the only thing that since then has been unanimously abandoned; for philosophers are still by no means agreed as to the impossibility of making gold.

  • According to my computations and the observations of the metallurgists, I had succeeded in making gold, and I believed I could prove it.

  • I find out that he has discovered my process of making gold, and that perhaps he knew it before I did.

  • In order to revive my interest, and to make a decisive stroke, I resume the study of the problem of making gold.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    additional proof; beautiful voice; certain relation; evil deeds; eyed goddess; highly variable; making believe; making body; making bread; making known; making laws; making love; making money; making power; making ready; making treaties; military training; not daring; other employments; prairie dogs; quite ready; silver bowl; sweet wife; will speak; wings black; wire basket