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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.