Word: cloy
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...cloy the hungry edge of appetite
Here, it was said, the woods teemed with the partridge, the fields in the vicinity of the town with quail, while myriads of black ducks revelling in this paradise of lakes were sure to afford the hunter excellent sport. If this easy game should cloy on the overfed appetite of the sportsman, and he should sigh for a crack at the more hardy fowl which brave the storms of our rock-bound coast, the Gurnet and Mamamet points would afford the desired opportunity, where "thousands of millions" of birds of passage daily pass...