embarras de richesses

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Is not the dyer bewildered with an embarras de richesses, so that he knows not where to choose?

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 by Various

In the meantime you are, after all, only suffering from an embarras de richesses; it's far better to have too many suitors than none at all.

From Kate Coventry An Autobiography by Whyte-Melville, G. J.

If the field of literature connected with Corsica was found barren when examined in prospect of this expedition, that of Sardinia presented an embarras de richesses.

From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Forester, Thomas

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

So great, however, is the number of similar, but apparently independent, structures, that we suffer from a perfect embarras de richesses.

From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George