embarras de richesses
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It seems to be an embarras de richesses," said Meredith laughing, "and I do not wonder.
From Pine Needles by Warner, Susan
In this direction there was in 1836, a very embarras de richesses, for, if comic artists were few, there was on the other hand no lack of humourists of the highest order of merit.
From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham
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.
If good looks were a qualification for such employment, that civilian must have been troubled with an embarras de richesses.
From Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Callwell, C. E. (Charles Edward), Sir
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
