I feel he's hemmed in with such a sticky, treacly, simpering amount of youthful adoration generally, that I simply have to rag him for his good!"
"Winding Paths"
Gertrude Page
He watched the treacly pour of the yellow fog thickening about him.
"Patsy"
S. R. Crockett
And he set the sail, and Eliza steered as well as she could in her treacly state.
"Oswald Bastable and Others"
Edith Nesbit