embarras de richesses

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Far from a poverty of materials, therefore, the historian has much more reason to complain of an embarras de richesses.

From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by Prescott, William Hickling

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

And so, having visited, re-visited, and re-visited again this splendid hexagon on the European map, I yet find in the choice of holiday resorts a veritable embarras de richesses.

From East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne by Betham-Edwards, Matilda

Here was, therefore, an embarras de richesses, which could be got rid of only by a judicious process of elimination, that is, by discarding all like-sounding symbols but one for the same sound.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court