A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.

With what could be a surfeit of candour, [Mike] Skinner has described DJing as more creative than playing his own songs, because, to paraphrase, of the "stress" and "creativity" of not knowing what he'll be doing in three minutes' time.

King Henry I is said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys.

[…] ev’n the wholsomest Meats may be surfeited on, and there is nothing more unhealthy, than to feed very well, and do but very little Exercise.

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.

If he said of a dish, in the local tongue: “I could do a bit of that!” or if he simply smacked his lips over it, she would surfeit him with that dish.

[…] that proportion of meat surfetteth, and surchargeth the stomacks of some, which is not enough to satisfie the hunger of others,

[…] I imagine him poisoned by his wines, or surfeited by a favourite dish;

1697, Aphra Behn, “On an ungrateful and undeserving Mistress, whom he cou’d not help Loving” in Poems upon Several Occasions, London: Francis Saunders, p. 50,
While some glad Rival in her Arms did lye,
Glutted with Love and surfeited with Joy.

[…] he shan’t shut me up in this dismal castle, and nauseate me with his surfeiting fondness:

[…] I suppose his majesty thought we had enough of it on the field, and did not wish to surfeit us with glory.

The image-surfeited are likely to find sunsets corny; they now look, alas, too much like photographs.

[…] his appetite for vulgar praise had not yet been surfeited;

Every one has had the experience of being served with more food than can be eaten with relish and without waste. The effect is to surfeit the appetite and to limit the variety which a patron may have,

Those who do not surfeit themselves do not weary quickly of any particular article of diet.

After surfeiting itself with the Feast here provided for it, the Eye, by using a little Exercise in travelling about the Country, grows hungry again, and returns to the Entertainment with fresh Appetite.

[…] the intemperate zeal with which middle-aged men are apt to surfeit themselves upon a seductive folly which they have tasted for the first time.

But are children to be allowed to surfeit themselves? Shall they be suffered to take their fill of dainties and make themselves ill, as they certainly will do?

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