Citations:myrrhic

English citations of myrrhic

Adjective: "of, related to, or derived from myrrh"

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• 1866 — Leopold Gmelin, Hand-Book of Chemistry, Volume XVII, Harrison and Sons (1866), page 426:

  The transparent red-brown residue, Ruickholdt's myrrhic acid, is acid, nearly insoluble in caustic potash, but soluble in alcohol and ether […]

Adjective: "having a pleasant fragrance; aromatic"

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• 1888 — Amanda Elizabeth Dennis, "The Phoenix", Asphodels and Pansies, J. B. Lippincott & Company (1888):

  "In a nest of myrrhic incense

  He awaits his coming doom,

  While the funereal flames creep closer

  With their sweet but hot perfume,

  Till golden plume and pinion

  Are caught beneath their sway,

  And the nest of myrrh and spices,

  Is naught but ashes gray.

• 1916 — Witter Bynner (as Emanuel Morgan), "Opus 45", Spectra, Mitchel Kennerley (1916):

  All the fragrances of dew, O angel, are there,

  The myrrhic rapture of young hair,

• 1980 — Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer, Simon and Schuster (1980), →ISBN, page 217:

  Above us the avern brooded like a gonfalon; from it there drifted a myrrhic perfume.

• 1997 — Clive Barker, Sacrament, HarperCollins (1997), →ISBN, page 177:

  Ambrosial, myrrhic, mephitic. He'd divided the smells up, so he had a name for every one: putrid, musky, balsamic.

• 2006 — John Mole, It's All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Restina - and Real Greeks, Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2006), →ISBN, page 316:

  It reverberates with layer on layer of flavour and aroma, from springtime zephyr at the top of the register to a myrrhic basso profundo.

• 2007 — Ernest W. Hanisch, Running Rain, Vantage Press, Inc. (2007), →ISBN, pages 32-33:

  Out of the forests drift the myrrhic scent of gum resin. On the warm wind there is the smell of a faraway forest fire. And then there is the all-pervading perfume of dry grass.