| He was thinking of an old man who had installed an alchemic laboratory on the fifth floor of a house in the rue Saint Jacques. |
| Here, probably, he stored his alchemic books and those treasures of the Tradescants which he gave to Oxford. |
| Thanks to certain alchemic pens, which have touched even garbage to gold-paper, murder has been as fine, and withal as jocund among us, as a May-day sweep. |
| Recent memorials also reflect art's shift from representation to abstraction to a kind of alchemic transformation of image and material into a work of meaning. |
| Any overt act, above all, is felt to be alchemic in its power to change. |
| With a fine and deft delicacy, nature and landscape are imbued with a soft surrealism, edging towards an alchemic, almost spiritual symbolism. |
