embarras de richesses

Example Sentences

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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

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

I do not know that this embarras de richesses is altogether to your credit, but so it is.

From For the Cause by Weyman, Stanley J.

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.

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.