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  • To be charged with a surfeit of ambition cut deepest, it would appear.†   (source)
  • He had just secured a post with my neighbor, Alexander Hadfield, who presently had a surfeit of orders to fill.†   (source)
  • Ten would be a surfeit.†   (source)
  • Just looking at them reminds me of Christmas and the sticky feeling after eating too many, the surfeit and glut.†   (source)
  • The letter itself was virtually endless in length, overwritten, teaching, repetitious, opinionated, remonstrative, condescending, embarrassing—and filled, to a surfeit, with affection.†   (source)
  • I am sure it is surfeited with babies and is now coming after adults.†   (source)
  • As with his nose for wine, Nathan had an informed palate (a reaction, he said, to a childhood surfeit of soggy kreplach and gefilte fish) and he took obvious joy in making her acquainted with New York's incredible and manifold banquet.†   (source)
  • I ate all the good food he had brought me, and I felt surfeited for the first time since I had been in durance.†   (source)
  • His monstrous groin cries out to mount the wind As the mind cries out for subtleties worth thought And the heart for a sacrifice as thick as time: Hunger and surfeit gathered in one red heat.†   (source)
  • At this moment when our country is being bled white and is making a supreme effort to shake off the encircling hydra of the enemy, you have allowed yourselves to be fooled by a gang of nobodies, you have become a rabble, politically unconscious, surfeited with freedom, hooligans for whom nothing is enough.†   (source)
  • BERENGER: [surfeited and pretty weary] How do I know, then?†   (source)
  • Much rage and some madness—and a surfeit of grief.†   (source)
  • But those fall weeks were flooded with an unaccustomed surfeit of sunlight.†   (source)
  • Fischer, forty, was a strapping, gregarious man with a blond pony tail and a surfeit of manic energy.†   (source)
  • And she will accept the strangely pleasant sensation that comes when he writhes beneath her hand and flattens his eyes with a surfeit of sensual delight.†   (source)
  • "One theory," Krogh writes, "has it that their lack of deference and their surfeit of defiance combine to make them relatively indifferent to what people think of them."†   (source)
  • At least when it came to strength and cunning, a man might make up for a lack of one with a surfeit of the other.†   (source)
  • Or had it been the gesture of a man seeking to appease a God who seemed to want not the love and awe that the Scriptures asked of us, but an endless surfeit of our suffering.†   (source)
  • Thus the jaded reader surfeited with our century's perdurable feast of atrocities will be spared here a detailed chronicle of the killings, gassings, beatings, tortures, criminal medical experiments, slow deprivations, excremental outrages, screaming madnesses and other entries into the historical account which have already been made by Tadeusz Borowski, Jean-Francois Steiner, Olga Lengyel, Eugen Kogon, Andre Schwarz-Bart, Elie Wiesel and Bruno Bettelheim, to name but a few of the most…†   (source)
  • When the summer comes," said Lord Marchmain, oblivious of the deep corn and swelling fruit and the surfeited bees who slowly sought their hives in the heavy afternoon sunlight outside his windows, "when the summer comes, I shall leave my bed and sit in the open air and breathe more easily.†   (source)
  • In a moment, he strode away, and the doctor turned to Falstaff, reading the man by his padded belly, briskly, with relief: "Now, Tragedy, begone, and to our dell Bring antic Jollity with cap and bells: Falstaff, thou prince of jesters, lewd old man Who surfeited a royal prince with mirth, And swayed a kingdom with his wanton quips—"†   (source)
  • …perhaps crossing the campus on foot in the slightly Frenchified cloak and hat which he wore, or perhaps (I like to think this) presented formally to the man reclining in a flowered, almost feminised gown, in a sunny window in his chambers—this man handsome elegant and even catlike and too old to be where he was, too old not in years but in experience, with some tangible effluvium of knowledge, surfeit: of actions done and satiations plumbed and pleasures exhausted and even forgotten.†   (source)
  • I was not concerned to impress the new freshmen who, like their London sisters, were here being launched in Society; there were strange faces now at every party and I, who a few months back had been voracious of new acquaintances, now felt surfeited; even our small circle of intimates, so lively in the summer sunshine, seemed dimmed and muted now in the pervading fog, the river-borne twilight that softened and obscured all that year for me.†   (source)
  • Eh, dear, if I'm not sick—sick and surfeited, I am!"†   (source)
  • Know, then, that for you is neither surfeit nor content.†   (source)
  • She would then have given anything for a single one of those meetings that surfeited her.†   (source)
  • But they, surfeited, curled up to sleep.†   (source)
  • He was a large and corpulent individual, surfeited with good clothes and good eating, who judged women as another would horseflesh.†   (source)
  • They aroused in him not hunger demanding renewal but surfeit that would demand more surfeit …. kisses that were like charity, creating want by holding back nothing at all.†   (source)
  • But whereas a girl of nineteen draws her confidence from a surfeit of attention, a woman of twenty-nine is nourished on subtler stuff.†   (source)
  • …since last night — of the general state of mind in which I had indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told, in her own quiet way a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal; — I pronounced judgment to this effect: That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.†   (source)
  • The Holy Church has a stomach healthy: Hath eaten many a land as forfeit, And never yet complained of surfeit: The Church alone, beyond all question, Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.†   (source)
  • Prince John, indeed, and those who courted his pleasure by imitating his foibles, were apt to indulge to excess in the pleasures of the trencher and the goblet; and indeed it is well known that his death was occasioned by a surfeit upon peaches and new ale.†   (source)
  • In short, the distaste of the worthy naturalist for beef was not unlike that which the shepherd sometimes produces, by first muzzling and fettering his delinquent dog, and then leaving him as a stepping stone for the whole flock to use in its transit over a wall, or through the opening of a sheep-fold; a process which is said to produce in the culprit a species of surfeit, on the subject of mutton, for ever after.†   (source)
  • The Ponds Sometimes, having had a surfeit of human society and gossip, and worn out all my village friends, I rambled still farther westward than I habitually dwell, into yet more unfrequented parts of the town, "to fresh woods and pastures new," or, while the sun was setting, made my supper of huckleberries and blueberries on Fair Haven Hill, and laid up a store for several days.†   (source)
  • I'm sick of the sight of this, and there's no reason you should all die of a surfeit because I've been a fool," cried Amy, wiping her eyes.†   (source)
  • Are not you surfeited?†   (source)
  • All things have surfeit—even sleep, and love, and song, and noble dancing—things a man may wish to take his fill of, and far more than war.†   (source)
  • In our weeping, then, his mother, now so destitute, and I might have had surfeit and relief of tears.†   (source)
  • His art, more than the art of feudalism as Walt Whitman called it, is the art of surfeit.†   (source)
  • Surfeit.†   (source)
  • O, I have fed upon this woe already, And now excess of it will make me surfeit.†   (source)
  • — Though not by war, by surfeit die your king, As ours by murder, to make him a king!†   (source)
  • But the next morn betimes, His purpose surfeiting, he sends a warrant For my poor brother's head.†   (source)
  • I will not go into other particulars, as for example want of shirts, and no superabundance of shoes, thin and threadbare garments, and gorging themselves to surfeit in their voracity when good luck has treated them to a banquet of some sort.†   (source)
  • This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,—often the surfeit of our own behaviour,—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical pre-dominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man,…†   (source)
  • —Menas, I did not think This amorous surfeiter would have donn'd his helm For such a petty war; his soldiership Is twice the other twain: but let us rear The higher our opinion, that our stirring Can from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck The ne'er lust-wearied Antony.†   (source)
  • (for if there were any pleasure in it, they think the doing it so often should give one a surfeit of it); 'and what pleasure can one find in hearing the barking and howling of dogs, which seem rather odious than pleasant sounds?'†   (source)
  • If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.†   (source)
  • But I am sure the younger of our nature, That surfeit on their ease, will day by day Come here for physic.†   (source)
  • He is about it: The doors are open; and the surfeited grooms Do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg'd their possets That death and nature do contend about them, Whether they live or die.†   (source)
  • You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are; and yet, for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.†   (source)
  • The commonwealth is sick of their own choice; Their over-greedy love hath surfeited: An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.†   (source)
  • His bark is stoutly timber'd, and his pilot Of very expert and approv'd allowance; Therefore my hopes, not surfeited to death, Stand in bold cure.†   (source)
  • For, as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings; Or, as the heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive; So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me!†   (source)
  • …soon burnt; carded his state, Mingled his royalty, with capering fools; Had his great name profaned with their scorns; And gave his countenance, against his name, To laugh at gibing boys, and stand the push Of every beardless vain comparative; Grew a companion to the common streets, Enfeoff'd himself to popularity; That, being dally swallow'd by men's eyes, They surfeited with honey, and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much.†   (source)
  • You are three men of sin, whom Destiny, That hath to instrument this lower world And what is in't,—the never-surfeited sea Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men Being most unfit to live.†   (source)
  • Would such gentlemen but consider the contemptible thoughts which the very women they are concerned with, in such cases as these, have of them, it would be a surfeit to them.†   (source)
  • From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty: As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint.†   (source)
  • But knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temperance over appetite, to know In measure what the mind may well contain; Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.†   (source)
  • Whether Mrs Blifil had been surfeited with the sweets of marriage, or disgusted by its bitters, or from what other cause it proceeded, I will not determine; but she could never be brought to listen to any second proposals.†   (source)
  • 1) Of insolence is bred The tyrant; insolence full blown, With empty riches surfeited, Scales the precipitous height and grasps the throne.†   (source)
  • I have long dream'd of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane; But, being awaked, I do despise my dream.†   (source)
  • Alas, their love may be called appetite,— No motion of the liver, but the palate,— That suffer surfeit, cloyment, and revolt; But mine is all as hungry as the sea, And can digest as much: make no compare Between that love a woman can bear me And that I owe Olivia.†   (source)
  • O love! be moderate; allay thy ecstasy; In measure rain thy joy; scant this excess; I feel too much thy blessing; make it less, For fear I surfeit!†   (source)
  • There is nothing so absurd, so surfeiting, so ridiculous, as a man heated by wine in his head, and wicked gust in his inclination together; he is in the possession of two devils at once, and can no more govern himself by his reason than a mill can grind without water; his vice tramples upon all that was in him that had any good in it, if any such thing there was; nay, his very sense is blinded by its own rage, and he acts absurdities even in his views; such a drinking more, when he is…†   (source)
  • "Nay, to be sure, ma'am," answered Honour, "your la'ship hath had enough to give you a surfeit of them.†   (source)
  • On flowers reposed, and with fresh flowerets crowned, They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy, secure Of surfeit, where full measure only bounds Excess, before the all-bounteous King, who showered With copious hand, rejoicing in their joy.†   (source)
  • If he fill'd His vacancy with his voluptuousness, Full surfeits and the dryness of his bones Call on him for't: but to confound such time That drums him from his sport, and speaks as loud As his own state and ours,—'tis to be chid As we rate boys, who, being mature in knowledge, Pawn their experience to their present pleasure, And so rebel to judgment.†   (source)
  • And yet so tender was his pride, that it felt the contempt which his wife now began to express towards him; and this, added to the surfeit he had before taken of her love, created in him a degree of disgust and abhorrence, perhaps hardly to be exceeded.†   (source)
  • Briefly to this end: we are all diseased, And with our surfeiting and wanton hours Have brought ourselves into a burning fever, And we must bleed for it; of which disease Our late king, Richard, being infected, died.†   (source)
  • Those, whom last thou sawest In triumph and luxurious wealth, are they First seen in acts of prowess eminent And great exploits, but of true virtue void; Who, having spilt much blood, and done much wast Subduing nations, and achieved thereby Fame in the world, high titles, and rich prey; Shall change their course to pleasure, ease, and sloth, Surfeit, and lust; till wantonness and pride Raise out of friendship hostile deeds in peace.†   (source)
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