surfeits
- present tense form of surfeit (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Increasingly in the '80s, Halloween has become an escapist extravaganza for adults, a trickless treat that more closely resembles Mardi Gras than the candy-and-apple surfeits of yesteryear.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Taking care of my health” prevented me from skating and snow-balling; while perspective surfeits deprived me of the enjoyments of the turkeys, beef, and glorious pudding.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 18, 1841 by Various
Fare ye well: Thou hast years upon thee; and thou art too full Of the wars' surfeits to go rove with one That's yet unbruis'd: bring me but out at gate.—
From Coriolanus by Shakespeare, William
Their rest is not disturbed by the fear of thieves and robbers, nor is it interrupted by surfeits of intemperance.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 by Swift, Jonathan
No, the men of ease and idleness may have surfeits, the men of toil can only have banquets.
From Gaut Gurley by Thompson, D. P.
