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  • noun Plural form of alchemy.

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Examples

  • Scorpio: Explore the different alchemies of money this week.

    Horoscope for the week of April 20, 2008 2008

  • "It shouldn't have been, " Scarpetta says, opening the medicine cabinet and finding the usual alchemies for aches and pains and troublesome bowels.

    Predator Cornwell, Patricia 2005

  • It creates that rarest of alchemies -- characters who you are perfectly content to hang out with, just hang out with, because they're charming and amusing as people.

    2/27/05 - 3/6/05 Rogers 2005

  • It creates that rarest of alchemies -- characters who you are perfectly content to hang out with, just hang out with, because they're charming and amusing as people.

    Archive 2005-02-27 Rogers 2005

  • It is the spirit of the Battalion, something compounded by the subtle alchemies of the spiritual world out of the individual souls of officers and privates alike.

    The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 John W. [Editor] Arthur

  • Had James belonged to another school he might have preferred a young man for protagonist; as it was he preferred to watch the more subterranean alchemies which, with the fewest possible external incidents, gradually enrich this sort of woman to maturity.

    Chapter 8. Henry James 1921

  • Transmuting what they learn by heavenly alchemies.

    Georgian Poetry 1918-19 Various 1912

  • Virginia, near the head of a valley long noted for healing waters that spring, warm and cold, from subterranean alchemies into picturesque pools and steaming rivulets, lies the ancient village of Hollandville, with its quaint, galleried facades; its flower gardens and its mill - race; its ambient clouds and drowsy sunshine, and the ever-delicious somnolence that overcomes the most potent vigor with an ease that mystifies.

    The Rose in the Ring George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • I take it for granted that when these halls are Vincent Braddell's, we shall have no need of gold, nor of these pale alchemies.

    Lucretia — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • I take it for granted that when these halls are Vincent Braddell's, we shall have no need of gold, nor of these pale alchemies.

    Lucretia — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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