embarras de richesses

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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

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.

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

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.

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