honey-flowing

He rung for the things to be taken away; and then reached a chair, and sat down by me, and put his kind arms about me, and said the most generous and affecting things that ever dropt from the honey-flowing mouth of love.

Pamela 2006

The words mellifluous (honey-flowing) and melody (honey-sound) are themselves standing witnesses in behalf of the existence of the same perception.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

So is that honey-flowing matron eloquence apparelled, or rather disguised, in a courtezan-like painted affectation: one time with so far-fetched words, they may seem monsters, but must seem strangers to any poor Englishman; another time, with coursing of a letter, as if they were bound to follow the method of

English literary criticism Various

He rung for the things to be taken away; and then reached a chair, and sat down by me, and put his kind arms about me, and said the most generous and affecting things that ever dropt from the honey-flowing mouth of love.

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Samuel Richardson 1725

Now for the outside of it, which is words, or (as I may term it) diction, it is even well worse, so is that honey-flowing matron eloquence apparelled or rather disguised, in a courtesan-like painted affectation: one time with so farfet49 words, that many seem monsters—but must seem strangers—to any poor Englishman; another time with coursing of a letter, 50 as if they were bound to follow the method of a dictionary; another time with figures and flowers extremely winter-starved.

The Defense of Poesy 1909

"honey-flowing vein" of the author of _Venus_ and _Lucrece_, and

The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson