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Updated: June 18, 2025
It is annoying to read about children. If they are good they cloy, and if bad they irritate. The Kid is neither. In any case, it is time she came home now, so she will have to drop in here. During my servantless period she stayed with friends which was a good thing for her digestion and my nervous system. Now there was no longer any excuse I mean, it was now time for her to return.
Hark! she began to sing in a voice so rich and perfect that its honied notes seemed to cloy my blood and stop my breath. "The world was not, was not, and in the womb of Silence Slept the souls of men. Yet I was and thou " Suddenly Ayesha stopped, and I felt rather than saw the horror on her face. Look! Leo swayed to and fro as though the stones beneath him were but a rocking boat.
The rain poured down with quiet persistency. Everything in the boat was damp and clammy. Supper was not a success. Cold veal pie, when you don't feel hungry, is apt to cloy.
Luxury is innocent, nay, it is desirable, as far as it can contribute to health and cleanliness to rational enjoyment; as far as it serves to prevent gross debauchery; and, as one of our poets has expressed it, "When sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy," it should be encouraged.
"I have taken notice but of one Tragedy of ours; whose Plot has that uniformity and unity of Design in it, which I have commended in the French; and that is, ROLLO, or rather under the name of ROLLO, the story of BASSANIUS and GOETA, in HERODIAN. There, indeed, the plot is neither large nor intricate; but just enough to fill the minds of the audience, not to cloy them.
Strawberrying. "Why should we fear youth's draught of joy, If pure, would sparkle less? Why should the cup the sooner cloy Which God has deigned to bless?" The "strawberry picnic" proposed by Alick Steele had been fixed for the following Tuesday should it prove fine.
I did the same by my meat, as well in regard to quantity as to quality, accustoming myself never to cloy my stomach with eating or drinking; but constantly rise from table with a disposition to eat and drink still more. In this I conformed to the proverb, which says, that a man, to consult his health, must check his appetite.
Of fruit they are said to be very fond, and can afford to indulge themselves in any kinds. With all these articles to cloy the appetite, only one set meal a day is taken; though the poorer classes, fishermen and laborers, partake of two. This consists of about twenty chiefs, either datus, or their next in rank, called orangs, who are governors of towns or detached provinces.
'Oh, very well. "'Ever monkey with copper? I asks. "'Stand back! says he, raising his hand, 'or I'll call the dog. I told you not to waste your time. "After a while he says: 'Bunk, if you don't mind my telling you, your company begins to cloy slightly. I've got to write an article on the Chimera of Communism for a magazine, and attend a meeting of the Race Track Association this afternoon.
I am sated with Lesson and Allegory, weary of monitory ants, industrious bees, and preaching animals. The benefits of Civilization cloy me. I have seen enough shining of the didactic Sun.
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