114 examples of cloy in sentences

Delights to vexed spirits are as dates Set to a sickly man, which rather cloy than comfort: Let me entreat you to entreat no more.

But if to Neroes end this onely way Heavens Justice hath chose out, and peoples love Could not but by these feebling ills be mov'd, We doe not then at all complaine; our harmes On this condition please us; let us die And cloy the Parthian with revenge and pitie.

Sheen will tarnish, honey cloy, And merry is only a mask of sad; But sober on a fund of joy The woods at heart are glad.

[Macbeth]; who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite?

V. sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate; cloy, quench, slake, pall, glut., gorge, surfeit; bore &c (weary) 841; tire &c (fatigue) 688; spoil. have enough of, have quite enough of, have one's fill, have too much of; be satiated &c adj..

With all these articles to cloy the appetite, only one set meal a day is taken; though the poorer classes, fishermen and laborers, partake of two.

Thou art our all in this impassioned life: How sweetly comes thy presence ending strife, Thou god of peace and Heaven's undying joy, Oh, hast thou ever left one pain or cloy Upon this beauteous world to us so dear?

Sweet Sam-kha's charms are known, she is our Joy, As Ishtar's aid her charms ne'er cloy; Kharun-tu with her perfect face and form, The hearts of all our court doth take by storm: When joys by our sweet Sam-kha are distilled, Kharun-tu's love overcomes us till we yield.

Within other four years, and before the period of his apprenticeship had expired, William began to repeat poetrysome said to write it, but that was not the fact; he only twisted or altered a few words now and then, to suit the occasion; and almost every line ended with words of such soft sounds as bliss, kisslove, dovejoy, cloy, and others equally sweet, the delightful meanings of which are only to be met with in the sentimental glossary.

But enough "the sweetest honey Is loathsome in its own deliciousness" and we would not willingly cloy our readers.

You are naturally," she continued, "amiable and indolent, and though gentleness is certainly agreeable and interesting, yet a constant succession of sweets cannot fail to cloy, and engender a taste for something sharper and more wholesome.

Sometimes they sat under the wild clematis, flowering now, and that, too, was perfumed, a wild and tangy scent that did not cloy.

By the way, we hear of a sprinkling of the antique world of letters in some of the "Annuals"an introduction which reflects high credit on the taste of the editors, and serves to prove that sicklied sentimentalities, like all other sweets, when enjoyed to excess, will cloy the fancy, but not so as entirely to unfit the mind for a higher species of intellectual enjoyment.

RULE XIIFINAL Y. The final y of a primitive word, when preceded by a vowel, should not be changed into i before any additional termination: as, day, days; key, keys; guy, guys; valley, valleys; coy, coyly; cloy, cloys, cloyed; boy, boyish, boyhood; annoy, annoyer, annoyance; joy, joyless, joyful.

"Y preceded by a vowel is never changed, as boy, boys, I cloy, he cloys, etc."Ib., p viii.

A smile is curving o'er her creamy cheek, Her bosom swells with all a lover's joy, When love receives a message that the coy Young love-god made a strong and true heart speak From far-off lands; and like a mountain-peak That loses in one avalanche its cloy Of ice and snow, so doth her breast employ

Sweet things cloy, tonics are bitter.

[Footnote 3: "Why should we fear youth's draught of joy, If pure, would sparkle less? Why should the cup the sooner cloy Which God hath deign'd to bless?"] THE END.

No vain desires of change disturb their joy; Such sweets, like bliss divine, can never cloy: Fill'd with that spirit which great souls inflame, Their wondrous offspring start to early fame.

Cloy, sate, satiate, satisfy, surfeit.

Keep your ambition, and let love alone: That I can cloy, but this I cannot cure.

Good bread does not cloy the appetite as do many other articles of food, and the simplest bill of fare which includes light, wholesome bread, is far more satisfying than an elaborate meal without it.

It was a war I waged; I found a joy Undreamed-of in their death-cries, and in blood Full ankle-deep I wadedvictor stood, To find at last that horror too could cloy!

The anguish of maternal hearts Must search for balm divine; But well the striplings bore their fated parts (The heavens all parts assign) Never felt life's care or cloy.

Surely butter must cloy, though your friends do the churning You are not the whole world, though you did win a tanner; And Punch thinks it well, when your head has done turning, You should turn a new leaf, and just soften your manner.

114 examples of  cloy  in sentences