Fewe kepeth mesure, butexcesse and great outrage In theyr aparayle.
Heede must be taken that such rules or sentences be choisly made and not often vsed least excesse breed lothsomnesse.
Ministers in Virginia=, not to "give themselves to excesse of drinking," 33.
We are groune to that height of Intemperance in all excesse of Riott, as noe mans estate allmost will suffice to keepe saile with his aequalls: and he whoe failes herein, must live in scorne and contempt.
For thou desyrest to have excesseof rayne, Whych thyng to the were the worst thou couldyst obtayne.
For, commenly, the cause of every wracke Is excesse of wynde, where water doth lacke.
For in excesse of rayne at any flood Your myllys must stande styll; they can do no good.
Yet was their manner then but bare and plaine: 8 For th'antique worldexcesse and pride did hate; Such proud luxurious pompe is swollen vp but late.
Neuerthelesse this excesse is not often found in the common sort, whom penurie maketh to be more frugall; but in their priests, and such as are of the richer calling.
This onelie shall suffice to note here (as by the waie) that as antiquitie hath delighted in these things, so in our time pompe and excesse spendeth all, and nothing is regarded that bringeth in no bread.
This is also to be read of the inhabitants of these Ilands, that ignorance of excesse is vnto the most part of them in steed of physicke; and labour and trauell a medicine for such few diseases as they are molested and incombred withall.
They doe obserue the lawe of the Greekes with such excesse of superstition, as the like hath not bene heard of.
I know no excesse more hurtfull for me, nor more to be avoided by me, in this declining age.
From the excesse of jollity," he begins, "I am falne into the extreame of severity .
If the liuing be enemie to the greefe, the excesse makes it soone mortall Ros.
Oh, I haue fed vpon this woe already, And now excesseof it will make me surfet.
If Musicke be the food of Loue, play on, Giue me excesse of it: that surfetting, The appetite may sicken, and so dye.
But if by excesse a man must in eyther part offend, I permit rather to watch to muche, then to lie in bedde to longe: so that in watchinge, there be no way to surfetting.
Let them increase In riot and excesse as their meanes cease; Let them scorne him that made them, and still shun 25 His Grace, but love the whore who hath undone Them and their soules.
Against excesse in apparell that every man be cessed in the churche for all publique contributions, if he be unmarried according to his owne apparrell, if he be married according to his owne and his wives, or either of their apparrell.
Assuredly this immoderate excesse of a King is now farre exceeded by many base shifting vnthrifts.
He much abhorred excesse in eating and drinking, and was so moderate in his owne diet, that he seemed to feede onely for necessitie of nature.
Since it was no necessity that compell'd You, but an excesse of your good nature, and your charitie.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "excesse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
