embarras de richesses

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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

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

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

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

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