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“She put an elbow on the table and leaned with her chin on her hand, the flesh of her arm looking rounded, solid, smooth. There were no angles to her at all, thought Frances with envy. She was all warm colour and curve. How well she filled her own skin! She might have been poured into it, like treacle.”

Frances Treacle Lilian Paying Guests

Book:The Paying Guests

Source: The Paying Guests

“It was as if the future were a treacly adhesive fluid that had been spilt all over the present, so that everything he touched made his fingers too sticky to be of the slightest use.”

Book:Lud-in-the-Mist

Source: Lud-in-the-Mist

“Better still [than pure sugar] was the remedy known as theriac, the root of the English word 'treacle,' which was kept in ornate ceramic jars on the shelves of every self-respecting apothecary shop. The name comes from the Greek therion, meaning 'venomous animal,' for theriac was supposed in Classical times to counteract all venoms and poisons.”

Medicine Greek Etymology Apothecary 2006 Treacle 1527 Therion

Book:The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science

Source: The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science

“I don't believe in publishers who wish to butter their bannocks on both sides while they'll hardly allow an author to smell treacle. I consider they are too grabby altogether and like Methodists they love to keep the Sabbath and everything else they can lay hands upon.”

Believe Hands Wish Sides Lays Don't Believe Smell Publishers Both Sides Sabbath Methodists Treacle

Book:Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader

Source: Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader

“Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outlived the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill. The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets, So he that tastes woman, woman, woman, He that tastes woman, ruin meets.”

Men May Lost Sweet Taste Losing Gun Doctors Ruins Rope Pills Men Women Undone Treacle

Book:The Beggar's Opera

Source: The Beggar's Opera

“The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.”

Lost Sweet Treacle

Book:Alexander the Great, Or, the Rival Queens. A Tragedy

Source: Alexander the Great, Or, the Rival Queens. A Tragedy

“I've learned a few things from the tea party, both the political one and the one in Alice in Wonderland. From the first, I learned that you can make people angrily shuffle in roughly the same direction if you appeal to their beliefs in poorly defined ways. From the second, I learned that England has some sort of substance called treacle.”

People Ifs Way Firsts Political Belief Party England Defined Tea Appeals Substance I've Learned Tea Party Wonderland Shuffle Treacle

Author:Lore Sjoberg

“I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.”

Love Independence Wings Favors Dislike Treacle

Book:Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats

Source: Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats

“In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.”

Giving Years Looks Dream Heaven Poverty Saws Week Cold Thousand Salvation Misery Hunger Positive Atheism Bread Thirty Twelve Shelter Rebellious Benefactors Drainage Treacle

Book:Major Barbara

Source: Major Barbara