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Sentences ending with excess

That was it.--But what had he been doing to get his head into such a state?--had he really committed an excess? [6]
A just balance of the mental powers is a great deal more likely to be useful than any single talent, even were it the power of observation; in excess. [3]
Third, don't marry--I mean, to excess. [5]
Second, don't drink--that is, don't drink to excess. [5]
Truth is lost in its own excess. [6]
We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess. [5]
Wine ran in excess. [4]
For ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. [9]
At last one afternoon he came back to dine with us, insolent to excess. [9]
There was also a universal taste for hazard in money as well as in travel, for putting it out on risks at exorbitant interest, and the habit of gaming reached prodigious excess. [4]

Sentences containing excess two or more times

Diseases which arose from excess of heat were to be attacked by cooling remedies; those from excess of cold, by heating ones; and so of the other derangements of balance. [3]

More example sentences with the word excess in them

Have you not yourself seen, even in your short life, that what is highest and greatest can in its excess, be all that is most hideous? [10]
The spectators crowded within the bar and surrounded Laura who, calmer than anyone else, was supporting her aged mother, who had almost fainted from excess of joy. [5]
Young Mr. Colfax, with the excess of manner which was his at such times, excused himself and left abruptly. [9]
Good-evening," she added, with an excess of courtesy. [11]
To the dead, who had ceased to be dangerous, he was ready to show an excess of magnanimity. [10]
It is no valid objection to this conclusion that animals suddenly supplied with an excess of food, or when grown very fat; and that most plants on sudden removal from very poor to very rich soil, are rendered more or less sterile. [1]
The excess of unbridled power again makes it self visible in the wonderfully gifted man. [10]
No one, I trust, wishes to cloud the dreams of youth, or to dispel by excess of light what are called the illusions of hope. [4]
He invited me to eat, and the food they brought might have tempted a full man to excess, but I could only swallow a few mouthfuls. [10]
Many years hast thou angered me by thy coldness, hardness and obstinacy; to-day thou hast wounded me again in my most sacred feelings; this hurried me into an excess of wrath. [10]
And, in truth, this mighty sovereign, racked by almost unendurable pain, dealt cruelly enough with himself when he compelled his aching knee to bend until consciousness threatened to fail under the excess of agony. [10]
As soon as they show any disposition to refuse to the old gods the respect that is due to them, or to raise a finger against them, severity must be exercised and every excess must be punished by death. [10]
The aide-de-camp replied that probably the Emperor would not be displeased at this excess of zeal. [2]
If he died suddenly, as his father had died, a handful of people would sorrow with excess of feeling, and the growing world of his patrons would lament his loss. [11]
He tried to speak, but his voice failed from excess of emotion. [5]
But if originally sound and subsequently diseased, there has certainly been some excess, deficiency, or wrong quality in the materials or stimuli applied to it. [3]
The Emperor had received the last report half an hour before, and then commissioned his physician, who had again warned him against the excess of work, to protect him from interruption--he desired to have an hour alone. [10]
Furthermore, none but Pliny mentions the excess under consideration. [5]
He had seen, or thought that he had seen, the assured evidence of a speedy triumph over all the obstacles of Myrtle's youth and his own present seeming slight excess of maturity. [6]
But the demands of the heart and the senses were too powerful for the man who indulged to excess in fiery wine and spiced foods, though he knew that greater abstinence would have spared him torturing pangs. [10]
The extraordinary features of the business were, first, the excess of the rage into which they lashed themselves; and, secondly, the puerility of the inventions by which they attempted to account for the severity with which they fancied they had been treated. [5]
The young American of any freshness of intellect is stimulated to dangerous excess by the conditions of life into which he is born. [6]
To remember, youth must see and touch and be near, else it wears itself out in excess of feeling. [11]
In excess it may be very disagreeable, but when it is combined with genuine good-nature and no self-assertion, it is attractive. [4]
The longer I live the more I am impressed with the excess of human kindness over human hatred, and the greater willingness to oblige than to disoblige that one meets at every turn. [4]
She did not know what had befallen her, or whether, in the excess of happiness which overwhelmed her, to shout aloud in her exultant joy, or melt into silent tears of gratitude and emotion. [10]
Then she went, in her excess of caution, to the window. [6]
But he early impressed upon me that moderation was the mark of a true man, even as excess was that of a weak one. [9]
Does not your heart throb, in the presence of budding or blooming womanhood, sometimes as if it "were ready to crack" with its own excess of strain? [6]
True, I now have little reason to fear the avenging goddess who pursues the criminal, but all the more the other Nemesis, who limits the excess of happiness. [10]
All morning she had longed to go out into the woods and bury herself among the ferns and bracken, and laugh and weep for very excess of feeling, downright joy and vague woe possessing her at once. [11]
Stop,--had he fainted from excess of fatigue and anxiety? [5]
The postal revenues for the year ending June 30, 1864, amounted to $12,438,253.78, and the expenditures to $12,644,786.20, the excess of expenditures over receipts being $206,532.42. [7]
Then we are expected to play the wise man, warn against excess, point out shadows. [10]
Being short-sighted to excess, she wrote in little square paper-books, held close to her eyes, and (the first copy) in pencil. [14]
To reduce this excess of baggage, the abbess had been obliged to exert all her energy and authority, and many a sister retired weeping over some dear but too bulky treasure. [10]
But they are elements belonging to the body, and even in moderate excess will produce little disturbance. [3]
Myrtle turned her dark eyes on him with a simple wonder that saw an excess of saintly ardor in these demonstrations, and drew back from it. [6]
She seemed to choke with excess of feeling. [11]
Galen had urged Caesar to avoid excess in wine and violent emotions, and the wisdom of the warning was sufficiently proved by the attack which had seized him with such fearful violence, just when Caracalla had neglected it in both particulars. [10]
But when Nature beams with such excess of beauty, when the heart thrills with hope in its Author,--feels it is related to Him more than by any ties of creation,--it exults, too fondly, perhaps, for a state of trial. [6]
How she ambled and sidled and plumed herself, and now and then let fly her little heels high in air in mere excess of larkish feeling. [4]
She hated excess and lawlessness, but she could understand it. [11]
Be temperate in all things; avoid excess of zeal; for thus, and thus only, can we be just. [10]

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