syrops

Beaded bubbles winking at the brim; Throbbing throats 'long, long melodious moan; Curious conscience burrowing like a mole; Emprison her soft hand and let her rave; Men slugs and human serpentry; Bade her steep her hair in weird syrops; Poor weak palsy-stricken churchyard thing; Shut her pure sorrow-drops with glad exclaim -- such lines were to him a constant and exhilarating excitement.

Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Christopher Morley 1923

QUOTATION: And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.

Quotations 1919

That strange poem about "Annie." with its sickeningly sentimental conclusion, where the poet lies prostrate, drugged with all the drowsy syrops in the world, and celebrates his euthanasia, has a quality of its own.

Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

'tiger-moth's deep-damasked wings' -- with 'rose bloom,' and warm gules, 'and' soft amethyst '; it is loud with music and luxurious with' spiced dainties, 'with lucent syrops tinct with cinnamon,' with 'manna and dates,' the fruitage of Fez and 'cedared Lebanon' and 'silken Samarcand.'

Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation William Ernest Henley 1876