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sugary

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sugary [′shu̇g·ə·rē]
(petrology)
saccharoidal


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But few thoughts of Pan stirred Ahab's brain, as standing like an iron statue at his accustomed place beside the mizen rigging, with one nostril he unthinkingly snuffed the sugary musk from the Bashee isles (in whose sweet woods mild lovers must be walking), and with the other consciously inhaled the salt breath of the new found sea; that sea in which the hated White Whale must even then be swimming.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
The Italian's face instantly changed and assumed an offensively affected, sugary expression, evidently habitual to him when conversing with women.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
He always spoke in the same deliberate, well- chiselled, polite way, whether his words were sugary or venomous.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
 
 
 
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