After all, most of the problems of the world and of individual lives clearly come down to a shortfall in cleverness — and a surfeit of impulsiveness, self-righteousness and cruelty.
After supper, surfeited with the subject, she yawned. She wanted not to talk but only to read " Penrod, " stretched upon the lounge until at midnight she fell asleep.
I can only hope that the experimenters were humane enough to do as in Twain's story, and turn the surfeited creature upside down until he was relieved of his indigestible burden.
In the wake of Johnson's " Dictionary" , a plethora (one could even say a surfeit) of other dictionaries appeared, peaking in the period between 1840 and 1860, as well as many specialized dictionaries and glossaries.
" Four would be a few. Ten would be a surfeit. This is a cacophony. Children should be wrapped in swaddling clothes and hung upon the wall until the girls grow breasts and the boys are old enough to shave" .
The outer rim of his shell is a soft gristle, and when prepared like the meat itself, cooks to the texture of gum drops, and is of a flavor to make you eat until you are weak and faint from surfeit.