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Alice in Wonderland vocabulary
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treacle
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synonyms: theriac ???
tags: [Rx] [britain] [culinary]
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Definition:1. molasses2. a cloying song, speech, writing or blandishment3. [obsolete] a cure-all, such as theriac(all three usage examples are below...)
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all four tolchocked it to the edge of the filthy water that was like treacle mixed with human hole products, then one good horrorshow tolchock and in she went.
Anthony Burgess. A Clockwork Orange, p.31 (1962)
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"They lived on treacle," said the Dormouse, after thinking a minute or two.
"They couldn't have done that, you know," Alice gently remarked; "they'd have been ill."
Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland (1865)
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She felt as if the air around her had suddenly been packed with invisible molasses, treacly stuff she would never be able to struggle through in time.
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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a nice mixture of poison and treacle, suggesting Dolly come over on a Sunday
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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the clown’s garlic cannot ease the courtier’s disease so well as the pure treacle?
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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FACE. Purposing then, sir,
To have burnt rose-vinegar, treacle, and tar,
And have made it sweet, that you shou'd ne'er have known it;
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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Christ, which that is to every harm triacle,
By certain meanes oft, as knowe clerkes
Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: Man of Law's Tale
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