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.
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.
Truly it may be said he has an embarras de richesses!
From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Waller, Horace
I remarked coolly that I could not make up my mind what to do, as I had an embarras de richesses.
From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis
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
