myrrhine

He puts his costliest wine in myrrhine vases; he builds his temple with the lordliest cedars.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

"In myrrhine and jeweled vases were the wines served and the nightingales 'tongues on platters of pure gold," and he watched for the effect of his words.

The Coming of the King Bernie Babcock

He puts his costliest wine in myrrhine vases; he builds his temple with the lordliest cedars.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

Farrar says: "A whole population might be trembling lest they should be starved by the delay of an Alexandrian corn ship, while the upper classes were squandering a fortune at a single banquet, drinking out of myrrhine and jeweled vases worth hundreds of pounds, and feasting on the brains of peacocks and the tongues of nightingales."

A Short History of Monks and Monasteries Alfred Wesley Wishart 1899

He puts his costliest wine in myrrhine vases; he builds his temple with the lordliest cedars.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

The tables were of thyine and other precious woods, and were laden with crystal and myrrhine vases which had once been carried in Roman triumphs, and were now crowned with the choicest Chian, Lesbian, and Thasian wines.

Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895

There a whole population might be trembling lest they should be starved by the delay of an Alexandrian corn-ship, while the upper classes were squandering fortunes at a single banquet, drinking out of myrrhine and jeweled vases worth hundreds of pounds, and feasting on the brains of peacocks and the tongues of nightingales.

Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power Orison Swett Marden 1887

Whole cliffs of the former overhang the river Kashkar in Kaferistan; and the myrrhine vases of antiquity which were (it is probable) of agate, and came mainly from Carmania, seem to have been of a great size.

The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857

It is probable, also, that the _myrrhine_ cups, about which there has been so much disputing, were no strangers to the Jewish toilette.

Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822

If we road it myrrhine, it mmt be oaderstood to be goblets p erft iraed with jny rrb, which was likewise in me among the Romany

The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets 1812