To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.
On too frequent a repetition, those pleasures turn to satiety and disgust; they tear the constitution to which they are applied in excess, and, like the lightning of night, only serve to darken the gloom through which they occasionally break.
The pity of it is that thousands of these victims of either satiety or Tantalus seem never to dream that there are other values, or anything else, or better, in life.
Yes; these are emotions over which satiety has no power, and the recollection of which even disappointment cannot disenchant; but they do not exist without self-denial.
Ever on the wing, they are always sipping the sparkling joy on the brim of the cup, leaving satiety in the bottom for those who venture to drink deep.
One, the food is coated with oil and gains in satiety value at the expense of becoming relatively indigestible and productive of toxemia.
They taste good and are fat-rich with a high satiety value.
Another way of saying that is that they have a very high satiety value.
On the other hand, if we properly blend and intermingle the several varieties above-mentioned, our design will not be so readily noticed; and we shall also prevent that satiety which would arise from an elaborate uniformity of cadence.
For a minute he was half-inclined not to go, for he did not mind seeingSatiety at a distance if he did not come near.
But when the Prince came down he felt quite well, and, looking about amongst all his attendants, he could only catch a distant glimpse of Satiety standing yawning behind.
One day the Prince asked him what he was yawning for, and Satiety answered: 'Because I have nothing to do, and nothing to wish for, my Prince.
He began heartily to repent that he had quitted the palace of Prosperity, and wished himself back again with all his heart, thinking that he should care little about yawning Satietyif he could but get out of the thorns of Adversity.
When we imagine in our cities that the wind no longer calls us to such things, it is only our reading that blinds us, and the picture of satiety which our reading breeds is wholly false.
For terror and satiety are facts of sensibility like any others; and at their own hour they reign in their own right.
Because true history, through the frequent satiety and similitude of things, works a distaste and misprision in the mind of man, poesy cheereth and refresheth the soul, chanting things rare and various, and full of vicissitudes.
Soon is there a satiety of contest to the men, a most abundant crop of whom the brass pours upon the earth; but the harvest is very small, when Jove, who is the umpire of the battle of men, inclines his scales.
By me, at least, one moment of satiety has never been known!
Tis not satiety now makes me sad; So check thy mocking tongue, or cure my cares.
O talk of Burgos; It is my only subject--matchless town, Where all I ask are patriarchal years To feel satietylike my sad friend.
After satiety comes disgust, and then a period of dementia, but this is merely the prelude to another fling of erotic fury in his conformation to the doctrine of purification through pleasure.
