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There was a surfeit of unskilled volunteers.surfeit = excessive supply
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We had a surfeit of beer, but not enough food.surfeit = excessive amount
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Nor was McCandless endowed with a surfeit of common sense. (source)surfeit = an excessive amount
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"I didn't mean that," said Harry, whose brain felt sluggish with exhaustion and from the surfeit of food and wine. (source)surfeit = excess
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To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. (source)surfeit = something in excess supply
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The team was a very large one, there being a surfeit of able bodies and a shortage of machinery, and the foreman was constantly devising methods of using so many people efficiently. (source)surfeit = more than needed amount
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He's full-fleshed and with a surfeit of water. (source)surfeit = excessive amount
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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)surfeited = over indulged
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21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.† (source)
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Ever the intermingling of the people Has been the source of malady in cities, As in the body food it surfeits on; And a blind bull more headlong plunges down Than a blind lamb; and very often cuts Better and more a single sword than five.† (source)
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—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)
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Everywhere it reflected the authoritarian spandrels of his character, from its surfeit of policemen to its strict rules against picking flowers. (source)surfeit = excessive amount
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I am sure it is surfeited with babies and is now coming after adults.† (source)
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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;† (source)
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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)
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Ten would be a surfeit. (source)surfeit = overabundant supply
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