sick-sweet

It was mid-April, and the sun was God with a scalpel, slicing clean the edges of the leaves, the clusters of sick-sweet lilac, and the silkworm webbing that hung from the trees above us in a marvelous cottony cancer.

Bone Hinge 2010

It was mid-April, and the sun was God with a scalpel, slicing clean the edges of the leaves, the clusters of sick-sweet lilac, and the silkworm webbing that hung from the trees above us in a marvelous cottony cancer.

Bone Hinge 2010

It was mid-April, and the sun was God with a scalpel, slicing clean the edges of the leaves, the clusters of sick-sweet lilac, and the silkworm webbing that hung from the trees above us in a marvelous cottony cancer.

Bone Hinge 2010

I had to shower and imagine the hot water peeling back the congelation of that sick-sweet sweat born of the anxiety of bad dreams.

Object Liberation 2009

Had any ylang oil spilled, she would surely have been nauseated by its sick-sweet smell.

The Veiled Dragon Denning, Troy 1996

The sick-sweet stink of death seeped into everything.

ONE SHOT-ONE KILL CHARLES W. SASSER CRAIG ROBERTS 1990

The only thing I had ever smelled like it, on a scale that could cover a whole rural area, was the sugar mill back home in winter, which produced a thick, sick-sweet odor that seemed to permeate the inside of your skull.

The Lost Get-Back Boogie James Lee Burke 1986

The heavy, sick-sweet stench of chloroform filled the stuffy atmosphere.

Noble House Clavell, James 1981

Malcolm Sun craned around, the sweat on his back, his heart hurting and the sick-sweet excitement rage-fear taste still in his mouth.

Noble House Clavell, James 1981

The heavy, sick-sweet stench of chloroform filled the stuffy atmosphere.

Noble House Clavell, James 1981