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will cloy

  • future tense of cloy.

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It is that thou thro' future years May meet with very much of joy, And just a little grief, because Continued happiness will cloy.

From Canada and Other Poems by Young, T. F. (Thomas Frederick)

Good books, mi dear, are the best friends yu kan hav, they never will cloy, and never will betray you.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

But even honey will cloy; and that sweetest of all moons, the Apian one, would sometimes be better for a change.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 12, 1841 by Various

But joy incessant palls the sense; And love, unchanged, will cloy, And she became a bore intense Unto her love-sick boy!

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

But joy incessant palls the sense; And love unchanged will cloy, And she became a bore intense Unto her love-sick boy?

From Songs of a Savoyard by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir