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And I will never, now, I believe, make it from, "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan" all the way down to "And close your eyes with holy dread,/For he on honey-dew hath fed,/And drunk the milk of Paradise."
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: Just Do It Because I Say So Elizabeth Boleman-Herring 2012
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And I will never, now, I believe, make it from, "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan" all the way down to "And close your eyes with holy dread,/For he on honey-dew hath fed,/And drunk the milk of Paradise."
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: Just Do It Because I Say So Elizabeth Boleman-Herring 2012
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And I will never, now, I believe, make it from, "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan" all the way down to "And close your eyes with holy dread,/For he on honey-dew hath fed,/And drunk the milk of Paradise."
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: Just Do It Because I Say So Elizabeth Boleman-Herring 2012
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And I will never, now, I believe, make it from, "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan" all the way down to "And close your eyes with holy dread,/For he on honey-dew hath fed,/And drunk the milk of Paradise."
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: Just Do It Because I Say So Elizabeth Boleman-Herring 2012
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Together they conspired, and from the air and earth they sweated all sweetness till in a mist of their own love the leaves of the chaparral and the manzanita were dewed with the honey-dew.
CHAPTER X 2010
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His honey-dew of lips is like the grateful water draught
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So he clasped her in his arms and strained her fast to his breast and sucked her lip, till the honey-dew ran out into his mouth; and he laid his hand under her left-armpit, whereupon his vitals and her vitals yearned for coition.
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And they used to give him drink of the honey-dew of their lips42 these beauties with the high bosoms, adorned with grace and loveliness, the perfection of brilliancy and in shape very symmetry.
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Probably in her late walk home, some sweet, poisoned breeze, redolent of honey-dew and miasma, had passed into her lungs and veins, and finding there already a fever of mental excitement, and
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Of course, happiness of such shallow origin could be but brief; yet, while it lasted it was genuine and exquisite: a bubble — but a sweet bubble — of real honey-dew.
Villette 2003
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