| 1. | Take away that yellow surface which covers oranges and distill them in an alembic, until the distillation may be said to be perfect. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 2. | It distills such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | When that shall vade, by verse distills your truth. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | The Count had his own purposes when he gave her what Van Helsing called "the Vampire's baptism of blood." Well, there may be a poison that distills itself out of good things. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 5. | the pupils in the seminary, these tender levities errors imputed to newspapers, the imposture which distills its venom through the columns of those organs etc. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |