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I’m tired with waiting for this chymic gold, Which fools us young, and beggars us when old.”

From Letters on England by Voltaire

Where is the heart by chymic truth refined, The exploring soul whose eye had read mankind?

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

That happy minglement of hearts, Where, chang'd as chymic compounds are, Each with its own existence parts, To find a new one happier far!

From Thomas Moore by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

Here lives that chymic, quick fire which betrays Fresh spirits to the blood, and warms our lays.

From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)

Hence, probably, came the adjective chyic or chymic, and, at a somewhat later time, the word chemia as the name of that art which deals with calcinations, fusions, meltings, and the like.

From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison