What is "honeyed"

Usage examples of "honeyed".

On one occasion, taking me apart, the curate told me, with honeyed words, that in the profession to which I had devoted myself my thoughts ought to dwell upon the best means of being agreeable to God, and not on pleasing the world by my fine appearance.

The damned scataroni have just informed me, in honeyed words, that I never had to take the damned stibium at all!

She waved her hands at them, like a child shooing flies from honeyed bread, but she seemed apprehensive when they crossed the room, moving to stand in a shadowy, paneled corner.

He sent a honeyed letter to Ori by one of the villagers who sold fish in Drunk Town, saying how delighted he was to hear Ori was alive and not dead in the dreadful fire as he had heard, also that he was prospering and could they meet in the Yoshiwara that evening as Akimoto also wanted to discuss shishi matters of great importance.

Those old poisoners, the artists and thinkers, had sweetened the death-brew with their honeyed rhetoric, which would have been found out and rejected by every conscience with disgust, if it had not been for their falsehoods.

The abrogation of the Reciprocity Treaty and encouragement of the Fenian Raids by the American people had put the Canadians on their mettle and stiffened their backbone, so that neither retaliatory threats or honeyed allurements had any effect in changing their minds from carving out their own destiny under the broad folds of the Union Jack.

There were pies and puddings, flans and flummeries, saffron seedcakes, cloudy white bread and soft yellow butter, raspberries, pears, strawberries and honeyed figs, creamy curd, truffles, and crystal goblets encircling dark wine.

Nor would he permit Gavril to drink from the costly and elegant wines, or Klad beer, with its kick to the stomach, or the honeyed mead from the Isles of Saelutia that he had brought with him in a wagon made specially for the purpose.

Radiating her sensual charm all the while, Poppaea seemed even more beautiful than during her visit to the Palatine, probably because her honeyed strands of hair were not tied back but cascaded over the edge of the couch, glistening in the soft amber glow from the solitary candelabra on the table.

Shopping in Montreal is very much what it is in Boston or New York, I imagine, except that the clerks have a more honeyed sweetness of manners towards the ladies of our nation, and are surprisingly generous constructionists of our revenue laws.

He showed them the little monastery of Loretto, long monkless, with its honeyed carillon of bells and its blinding treasury.

Van Ruijven tried too hard when he looked at paintings, with his honeyed words and studied expressions.

Honeyed hams, crisp-roasted poultry, peppered joints of beef and sundry other marinated delicacies ready to be warmed at the fire, fresh and dried fruits, a variety of breads and pastries, platters of vegetables, exotic cheeses, bowls of almonds and raisins and gourds of spiced winesevery evening the Sentinels unpacked a veritable feast.

Garien was setting out two small glazed saucers of honeyed strawberries, but a dark, slim woman pushed past him.

However, even knowing how foolish it would be to get emotionally or physically involved with Car alie, he couldn't stop thinking about the sweet heat of her lips, the honeyed taste of passion that had resided there.