Confesse thy Treasons, ere thou flye this Realme, Since thou hast farre to go, beare not along The Clogging burthen of a guilty soule Mow.
"Richard-II"
Shakespeare, William
She came at length to the time when she saw clearly that he would never leave the prison alive, unless in some way she could contrive to keep open the Clogging springs of hope and desire.
"An Alabaster Box"
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley
If nobody at San Salvatore had ever heard of her, if for a whole month she could shed herself, get right away from everything connected with herself, be allowed really to forget the clinging and the Clogging and all the noise, why, perhaps she might make something of herself after all.
"The Enchanted April"
Elizabeth von Arnim