honey-dropping

Updated: August 22, 2026

Lord Rosebery, for example, has told us that he himself, for all his honey-dropping tongue, has never been properly understood.

Tom Kettle - The Open Secret of Ireland

The exquisite revulsion of the undertone in Bacchanalia "Ah! so the silence was, So was the hush;" the honey-dropping trochees of the New Sirens; the description of the poet in Resignation; the outburst "What voices are these on the clear night air?"

George Saintsbury - Matthew Arnold