surfeit

• Are we warranted in inferring that a finer public was beginning to loathe the dreary theological polemic of which it had had a surfeit, and turned to a book of poetry as that which was most unlike the daily garbage, just as a later public absorbed five thousand copies of Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel in the year of Austerlitz? —  Milton
• 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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