What is "syrupy"

Usage examples of "syrupy".

When Osman and al-Noor reached his double storeyed house in the south quarter, which lay between the Beit el Mai, the treasury, and the slave market, dawn was breaking and a dozen of his aggagiers were sitting in the courtyard being fed by the house slaves a breakfast of honey-roasted lamb and dhurra cakes with steaming pots of syrupy black Abyssinian coffee.

The coltish but attractive teenager, having gulped the last syrupy bits of a full half liter of cherry sloosh, came in.

Wretched, syrupy piano music: Ferrante and Teicher, playing some ghastly show tune.

Nibbling a rose petal, Quar watched appreciatively as Kaug poured the sweet, syrupy coffee into a fragile porcelain cup.

As he fought to free his arm of syrupy fronds he saw, sinking towards him through those eddying clouds, a silhouette, a shape whose arms were outstretched, as if crucified, whose flimsy robe billowed and swayed with the currents, whose black hair spread outwards in Gorgonian tresses.

Looking amused, Leia poured her syrupy wine back into the bottle and recorked it.

In syrupy light Luce was feeding the celluloid through the sprocket wheel.

The strong black coffee, syrupy with sugar, made Peter buzz with happy anxiousness to get going, to get to work, and the catfish, served with cassava bread broken from large flat wheels, tasted better than any breakfast he remembered eating in years.

Candler's new company also sold the syrupy base for its beverage to restaurants, which then added carbonated water.

A wash of debris to Persia's ankles, an assault of smells: greasy, syrupy, baby formula, baby vomit, baby excrement, the Garlock odor grimed into wood, wallpaper, the very foundations of the house.

I had struck flat out on the syrupy surface, dividing the blow over the entire back surface of my body.

DELKAI Never much better than ordinary, Delkai can be a pleasant and fruity-enough sweet white wine It is the only commercially available wme on Caladan which is produced entirely from native grapes remarkable enough for that reason alone There are a dozen or more different methods of producing the wine, each one a chemical process that is the jealously guarded secret of a single family Depending on the producer the wine may vary from emerald green to straw colored and from syrupy s.

She put down her fork, and started on the cherry pie with her fingers, picking out the syrupy fruit.

For Aviendha, the breakfast laid out in the sitting room consisted of cured ham with raisins, eggs cooked with dried plums, dried fish prepared with pine nuts, fresh bread slathered with butter, and tea made syrupy with honey.

From the jukebox, the tinny whine of steel guitars backed a syrupy nasal voice hymning adultery.