Then she took up the plate of cloying fritters and tiptoed out, opening softly the door to a slit of a room across the hall.

A blowsy maid strained herself immediately across the strewn table and cloying lamb platter, and turned off two of the three gas jets.

Fulsome suggests such gross flattery as to be annoying or cloying.

It would hardly be reasonable to attribute his laxity in rhyming to either carelessness, indifference, or unskilfulness: but rather to a deliberate preference for a certain variety in the rhyme-soundsas tending to please the ear, and availing to satisfy it in the total effect, without cloying it by any tight-drawn uniformity.

Yet by noon of the third he was viewing it with the eyes of soul-destroying ennui, though the disfavour it had so quickly won in his sight was, he knew, due less to cloying familiarity than to the uncertainty and discontent that were eating out his heart.

To see her entire family married by machinery was enough for her; to witness such consummate and collective happiness became slightly cloying.

First, I was minded for a while to haue intermitted the vttering of my writings; leaste by ouer-much cloying their noble eares, I should gather a contempt of myself, or else seeme rather for game and commoditie to doe it, for some sweetnesse that I haue already tasted.

Down the field, toward the corner, cutting in sharply, as though a door opened (or a page turned to another lyric), came the cloying, sweet fragrance of wild crab-apple blossoms, almost tropical in their richness, and below that, as I came to my work, the thin acrid smell of the marsh, the place of the rushes and the flags and the frogs.

[10] This, and some other Innovation in the Measure of his Verse, has varied his Numbers in such a manner, as makes them incapable of satiating the Ear, and cloying the Reader, which the same uniform Measure would certainly have done, and which the perpetual Returns of Rhime never fail to do in long Narrative Poems.

and find me in a crust of wild honey, the expressed essence of woods and flowers, with its sweet satiety?no, that's too cloying.

It was Jo, the clean-minded and simple-hearted, in revolt against the cloying luxury with which he had surrounded himself.

In canning and preserving time there floated out from her kitchen the pungent scent of pickled crab apples; the mouth-watering, nostril-pricking smell that meant sweet pickles; or the cloying, tantalising, divinely sticky odour that meant raspberry jam.

For about her was cloying velvet blacknessnot the closed-in blackness of a room, where one feels the embrace of the four walls, but the blackness of infinite space through which sweep mysterious currents of air.

The thickets of palmetto and the groves of magnolia filling the air with new and cloying fragrance, alternating with other unaccustomed odors which made the grove resemble an orchestra of perfumes, were to me a new and delightful experience.

Such was the opinion of Johnson; but there are other critics who object to the versification of Pope, that it is "monotonous and cloying.

His "monotonous and cloying" use of numbers, with that of Darwin, Goldsmith, Johnson, Haley, and others of the same "school," is alleged to have wrought a general corruption of taste in respect to versificationa fashion that has prevailed, not temporarily, "But ever since Pope spoil'd the ears of the town With his cuckoo-song verses, half up and half down"Ib. OBS.

She was accustomed to this cloying music, this Serenata of Toselli,a passionate lament that always touches the soul of the tourist in the halls of the grand hotels.

In after years, when his health began to fail and the sweets of success had, perhaps, become a trifle cloying, the tragedian often went through a part in a perfunctory manner.[A] But those early days in Ireland marked the sunrise of his geniusa time no less noble, in its freshness and promise, than the later glory of the noontideand there was in his performance nothing but youthful ardour and devotion.

But now if she was going to find Hilary as light-headed and cloying as Adolphe was thick-headed and sour, or if she must see Hilary go soft on the slim Mobile girlwhom Adolphe was already so torpidly enamored of"H-m-m-m!" Two young men who had tied their horses behind the hotel crossed the white court toward the garden.

James Thurber (A); 9Jan61; R269741. Is the allure of glamour cloying? (In The New Yorker, Oct. 21, 1933)

My cup was full of a pleasant beverage, neither cloying nor intoxicating, and the glad spring-time tempered it nicely to my taste.

[10] This, and some other Innovation in the Measure of his Verse, has varied his Numbers in such a manner, as makes them incapable of satiating the Ear, and cloying the Reader, which the same uniform Measure would certainly have done, and which the perpetual Returns of Rhime never fail to do in long Narrative Poems.

Follow the line still farther, and you will find it grateful to the sight, neither fatiguing with excess of monotony nor cloying the appetite with change.

The sweetness of it was perhaps a little cloying, but it was all quite nice and sympathetic.

It was a sweetness that would have been cloying had the air been heavy and humid.