embarras de richesses

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The only difficulty in such embarras de richesses of subject and such scantiness of time, is to decide what not to do.

From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by Swinburne, T. R.

I remarked coolly that I could not make up my mind what to do, as I had an embarras de richesses.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis

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

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

I really am afraid to enter more at large upon this theme, from a literal embarras de richesses.

From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Trollope, Frances Milton