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• A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.
• Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made.
• King Henry I is said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys.
• to prevent surfeit and other diseases that are incident to those that heat their blood by travels
• Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit.
• Now for similitudes in certain printed discourses, I think all herbalists, all stories of beasts, fowls, and fishes are rifled up, that they may come in multitudes to wait upon any of our conceits, which certainly is as absurd a surfeit to the ears as is possible.
• You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,
• That hath to instrument this lower world
• And what is in't,—the never-surfeited sea
• Hath caused to belch up you;
• She surfeited her children on sweets.
• To the door of this, the twelfth house whose bell he had rung, came a housekeeper who made him think of an unwholesome, surfeited worm that had eaten its nut to a hollow shell and now sought to fill the vacancy with edible lodgers.