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  • The word sound then vibrates in a phrase about itself: "Melodies round honey-dropping flowers" (23), enriched by the dropping of the round sound into the flowers.

    Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound 2008

  • Come and sit under my stone-pine that murmurs so honey-sweet as it bends to the soft western breeze; and lo this honey-dropping fountain, where I bring sweet sleep playing on my lonely reeds.

    Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902

  • Lord Rosebery, for example, has told us that he himself, for all his honey-dropping tongue, has never been properly understood.

    The Open Secret of Ireland 1898

  • "honey-dropping trochees" of the _New Sirens_, and of the "chiselled and classic perfection" of the lines of _Resignation_.

    Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems Matthew Arnold 1855

  • So was the hush; "the honey-dropping trochees of the _New Sirens_; the description of the poet in _Resignation_; the outburst --

    Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889

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