myrtle-berry

“In the house servants were moving about, lighting the fragrant wax candles of myrtle-berry and seeing to the comfort of the guests.”

Calvert of Strathore

“A deafening crash followed as we took our seats, while Monsieur de St. Gre's man lighted four candles of green myrtle-berry wax.”

The Crossing

“The door and windows were closed, and a green myrtle-berry candle was burning on the table.”

The Crossing

“A deafening crash followed as we took our seats, while Monsieur de St. Gré's man lighted four candles of green myrtle-berry wax.”

The Crossing

“The/Garland/of Meleager, l. 21, speaks of "the sweet myrtle-berry of Callimachus, ever full of acid honey"; and there is in all his work a pungent flavour which is sometimes bitter and sometimes exquisite.”

Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology

“Tymnes, and the green mint of Nicias, and the horn-poppy of Euphemus growing on these sands; and with these Damagetas, a dark violet, and the sweet myrtle-berry of Callimachus, ever full of pungent honey, and the rose-campion of Euphorion, and the cyclamen of the Muses, him who had his surname from the Dioscori.”

Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology

“The Greeks appear not only to have found in the myrtle-berry, the fruit of”

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