embarras de richesses
Example Sentences
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As I say, the train was, by the time we reached Wynberg, simply choked with luxuries—some of them quite unsuitable for wounded men—a veritable embarras de richesses.
From With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train by Bennett, Ernest N.
The only difficulty in such embarras de richesses of subject and such scantiness of time, is to decide what not to do.
From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by Swinburne, T. R.
So great, however, is the number of similar, but apparently independent, structures, that we suffer from a perfect embarras de richesses.
From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George
If the field of literature connected with Corsica was found barren when examined in prospect of this expedition, that of Sardinia presented an embarras de richesses.
From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Forester, Thomas
In the meantime you are, after all, only suffering from an embarras de richesses; it's far better to have too many suitors than none at all.
From Kate Coventry An Autobiography by Whyte-Melville, G. J.
