treacled

Besides these, there was a long row of boys waiting, with countenances of no pleasant anticipation, to be treacled; and another file, who had just escaped from the infliction, making a variety of wry mouths indicative of anything but satisfaction.

Nicholas Nickleby 2007

With a hand on the horse's shoulder, she led her new prize off to the stable, where the filly's good behavior would be rewarded by something the grass-fed beast had never yet tasted-a sweet treat of treacled grain.

Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998

And here are we, the Silly Sussex, still sticking to it, like flies on treacled paper.

A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross

Then Chesterton proceeds to the argument, the reader being by this time receptive enough to swallow a camel, on the sole condition that G.K.C. has previously slightly treacled the animal.

G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study Julius West 1904

Thus, and not in treacled cadences, intrigued Mariar and Sir Thomas in the back alley.

Ptomaine Street Carolyn Wells 1902

He found it perfectly simple, by means of the treacled cardboard which he carried, to force in the pane noiselessly.

Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Arnold Bennett 1899

Besides these, there was a long row of boys waiting, with countenances of no pleasant anticipation, to be treacled; and another file, who had just escaped from the infliction, making a variety of wry mouths indicative of anything but satisfaction.

Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841