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He seemed also to be intent on some sort of chymical operation.

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

I observed an apparatus for chymical experiments, of which Johnson was all his life very fond.

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

The distinctive sulphury smell of the infernal chymical mingled with the usual harbor odors of decaying fish, tar, stale beer, and human waste.

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

It seemed to be a chymical Analysis of all the ingredients which enter into the composition of Wine, and a proscess by which it might be made in its greatest perfection.

John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961

Geber, in the eighth century, is known as their principal chymical writer; he is said to have composed five hundred volumes, almost every one of which is lost.

History of the Moors of Spain M. Florian

A chymical operation could not be followed with greater art or diligence, than is seen in the hatching of a chick; though there are many other birds that shew an infinitely greater sagacity in all the forementioned particulars.

The Coverley Papers Various

He had what his learned contemporary Peter Heylyn termed "a chymical brain," a brain that was forever busy with new theories; and the leading theory was that some lucky man would discover a key or philosopher's stone or magic

Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909

“The composition would not of itself burst the hollow statue either by chymical explosion or mechanical expansion.”

The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study. 1906

He spent all his time in chymical experiments, I was told.

Oddsfish! Robert Hugh Benson 1892

The chymical philosophers have discovered a body (which I have forgotten, but will enquire) which, dissolved by an acid, emits a vapour lighter than the atmospherical air.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887