honied
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Within hours Columbia Artists' Vice-President William Judd was on the transatlantic phone with honied words.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dom P�rignon 1978 At 30 years old, this has a wonderful nutty, floral concentration � round, bready, honied and multidimensional.
From Time Magazine Archive
And I, listening, Found not the salt of the whispers of my girl, Murmur of confused colors, as we lay near sleep; Little wise words and little witty words, Wanton as water, honied with eagerness.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
The most peculiar of these is the long spiral "sucker," which extracts the honied food from the blossoms to which its wings so gracefully waft it.
From British Butterfiles Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species by Coleman, W. S. (William Stephen)
The fat of the fields husks the voice of the morn, while Demeter is weighing her sheaves; The lotus has honied its lips for the kiss, "and the turtle in mockery grieves."
From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Richmond, Hiram Hoyt
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