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Only the cat's natural abstemiousness saved her that night from dying of a surfeit--and in agony surely provocative of the very cries which Nanoun sought to restrain As I have said, the Great Supper must be "lean," and is restricted to certain dishes which in no wise can be changed; but a rich leanness is possible in a country where olive-oil takes the place of animal fat in cooking, and where the accumulated skill of ages presides over the kitchen fire.— The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals
He felt a loss of appetite from surfeit, and his energy itself decreased and sickness afflicted him.— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
They suffer from a surfeit--an apoplexy--of money.— A Dream of the North Sea
Have you not heard what the wits have remarked, To die of a surfeit were better than to bear with a craving appetite?"— The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2

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