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Rude language can spice up a conversation; but on the page it rapidly cloys.

MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature 2009

Bravo, which used to toy with cultural irony regarding materialism now cloys us with "real" Lindsey Lohans (sans the talent) and slightly better-educated Snookies as a way to boost the ratings.

Diana Butler Bass: The Real Housewives of Proverbs 31 2010

Bravo, which used to toy with cultural irony regarding materialism now cloys us with "real" Lindsey Lohans (sans the talent) and slightly better-educated Snookies as a way to boost the ratings.

Diana Butler Bass: The Real Housewives of Proverbs 31 2010

And root from out the soul the deadly weed which cloys?

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 2007

What makes this almost parodic is the self-conscious whimsy that conjoins animate and inanimate in a gesture of closeness conventionally reserved for animate beings alone, an archness that often cloys in Hunt but that points to a more serious scrambling of subjects and objects in bibliophilic writing generally, where books repeatedly turn into quasi-subjects and persons into quasi-objects.

Bibliographic Romance: Bibliophilia and the Book Object 2004

Possession, which cloys Man, only increases the affection of

The Monk 2004

Conducting health education sessions also gives participants a sense of accomplishment and a moons to assess what they have learned about health education in the post few cloys.

Chapter 10 1985

Of thy combing hand, the while it travelling cloys

Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

She had nothing but beauty, which cloys when it comes alone

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

Little De Roye, who was a very, pretty German lass at her house, informed me of it, and made me amends for the infidelity of the mistress, whose choice, to tell you the truth, did not mortify me much, because she had nothing but beauty, which cloys when it comes alone.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various