She had for once a surfeit of highhoting in the pictures, the porcelains, the thrones and canopies, the tapestries, the historical associations with the margraves and their marriages, with the Great Frederick and the Great Napoleon.
I saw I should have to be careful if I did not want to be taken at my word; I could not bear such a surfeit of pleasures.
As for the men, on whose arms they leaned, their careless and lounging airs were intended to give the idea of a surfeit of pleasure, and to make one think that the disordered appearance of their companions was a sure triumph they had enjoyed.
Why do you suffer this, you upper powers, That I should surfeit in the sin of taste, Have sense to feel my mischiefs, yet make waste Of heaven and earth?
We are in a fair way, through you, to surfeit sick upon them.
But Tommy had not brains to work off an overnight's surfeit by ten o'clock next morning, and unfortunately, in he wandered the other morning drunk with last night and with a superfoetation of drink taken in since he set out from bed.
All the way up I was thinking of the surfeit of religion I had had the night before, and also of how I had started that morning without bread or coffee, which was a folly.
Little rivulets of mere dampness ran in among the under moss, and such very small hidden flowers as there were drooped with the surfeit of moisture.
Keen eye for molehills, and none at all for mountains Love liberty in those who don't belong to us Made up my mind to go back to my owner May they perish of a surfeit of--good form!
At the risk of giving a surfeit of quotations, we must cite two more on this topic.
Above all, France was weary of war; and by peace the average Frenchman meant, not respite from Continental strifes that yielded a surfeit of barren glories, but peace with England.
That intemprat surfeit of her eye hath distemperd the other sences: they may returne and settle againe to execute their preordaind faculties, but they are now in a most extravagant vagary.
This happy life continued about four years, when my master's death, occasioned by a surfeit got by overfeeding on several exquisite dainties, put an end to it.
Ever by a surfeit you have a julep set to cool the Patient.
I build my hopes a world above the sky, Yet with the mole I creep into the earth; In plenty I am starved with penury, And yet I surfeit in the greatest dearth.
Quickly have men surfeit of battle, of that wherein the sword streweth most straw yet is the harvest scantiest, [i.
Well know I of myself that it is appointed me to perish here, far from my father dear and mother; howbeit anywise I will not refrain till I give the Trojans surfeit of war.
I could not help reflecting bodingly upon the intemperate zeal with which middle-aged men are apt to surfeit themselves upon a seductive folly which they have tasted for the first time.
Perhaps the reason I used to enjoy going to the Academy of Fine Arts in New York was because there were but a few hundred paintings in it, and it did not surfeit me to go through the list.
The mayor, who occupies the seat of honour, has succumbed to a surfeit of oysters, and a phlebotomist of the barber tribe is endeavouring to blood his arm and cool his head at one time.
Then surfeit with thy exhalations speedily; For all earth's venomous infecting worms Have belch'd their several poisons on the fields, Mixing their simples in thy compound draught.
To take it on the lowest ground, Dalmain, worshipper of beauty as he was, had had a surfeit of pretty faces.
I have been suffering from a surfeit of music, and the miss of it has given me this blank feeling of loneliness.
Is it not marvellous, as if one had not had a surfeit of killing?
Mr. Walraven had had a surfeit of Europe, and Washington, this sparkling winter weather, was at its gayest and best.
I rather dislike young men; I've had such a surfeit of them.
In the case of stammering there is a surfeit of impression but a want of sound; in that of stuttering there is a want of impression but a surfeit of sound.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surfeit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
