Both Uses of
cloying
in
The Life and Death of King Richard III
- Bear with me; I am hungry for revenge, And now I cloy me with beholding it.†
Scene 4.4 *
- Remember whom you are to cope withal;— A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways, A scum of Britagnes, and base lackey peasants, Whom their o'er-cloyed country vomits forth To desperate adventures and assur'd destruction.†
Scene 5.3
Definition:
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(cloying) overly sweet -- on the tongue or in sentiment