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

It was an embarras de richesses rarely met with; and in the rich and precious braids the ivory fingers were clutched, dishevelling them, tearing at them, in the excess of pain.

From Dr. Dumany's Wife by Jókai, Mór

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

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

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