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Soon as we begin to be sated and cloy'd with Passion and Sublime Images, the
A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney
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Bing'd out bien Morts and toure, and toure, Bing out of the Rome vile bine, And toure the Cove that cloy'd your duds, Upon the Chates to trine. '
The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain 1872
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By me earth's elder cloy'd and stifled lands uncloy'd, unloos'd,
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855
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The structure of his verse is the best, and a line of his is more musical than any other line can be made, by placing the accents elsewhere; but we are not quite certain, whether the ear is not apt to be soon cloy'd with this uniformity of elegance, this sameness of harmony.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753
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At Night we kill'd a Possum, being cloy'd with Turkeys, made a Dish of that, which tasted much between young Pork and Veal; their Fat being as white as any I ever saw.
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Hearts and Beauties, till you are cloy'd with the repeated Bliss, which others vainly languish for -- But know, false Man, that I shall be reveng'd.
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664
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I had trash enough to have cloy'd his eyes withal,
The False One Francis Beaumont 1600
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Whom he hath dull'd and cloy'd with gracious favours,
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By me Earth's elder, cloy'd and stifled lands, uncloy'd, unloos'd;
RVABlogs 2008
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While, cloy'd to find the fcenes of life the fame,
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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