embarras de richesses

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Here was, therefore, an embarras de richesses, which could be got rid of only by a judicious process of elimination, that is, by discarding all like-sounding symbols but one for the same sound.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

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

Truly it may be said he has an embarras de richesses!

From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Waller, Horace

As I say, the train was, by the time we reached Wynberg, simply choked with luxuries—some of them quite unsuitable for wounded men—a veritable embarras de richesses.

From With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train by Bennett, Ernest N.

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