camphire

Mr. Camphire said, hitting the word "want" with just the right sitcom-style emphasis, emotive of sarcastic disbelief.

Henna, in the Bible, is Camphire, and is mentioned in the Song of Solomon, as well as in the Talmud.

Mr. Camphire, who was baby-sitting, said that his life greatly resembles the lives of the Friends in that he has a lot of time to hang out in coffee shops.

"A Saxon heiress of large possessions," replied the Prior Aymer; "a rose of loveliness, and a jewel of wealth; the fairest among a thousand, a bundle of myrrh, and a cluster of camphire."

Two mediciners, as they called themselves, the one a monk, the other a barber, appeared, and avouched they knew nothing of the materials, excepting that they savoured of myrrh and camphire, which they took to be Oriental herbs.