1 It was not joy only that possessed me; I felt my flesh tingle with excess of sensitiveness, and my pulse beat rapidly.
2 But this was a luxury of sensation that could not endure; I became fatigued with excess of bodily exertion and sank on the damp grass in the sick impotence of despair.
3 This passion is detrimental to me, for you do not reflect that YOU are the cause of its excess.
4 The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.
5 But the overflowing misery I now felt, and the excess of agitation that I endured rendered me incapable of any exertion.
6 I had cast off all feeling, subdued all anguish, to riot in the excess of my despair.
7 Elinor saw, with concern, the excess of her sister's sensibility; but by Mrs. Dashwood it was valued and cherished.
8 By their uncertain light she thought she could discern it to be drawn by four horses; and this, while it told the excess of her poor mother's alarm, gave some explanation to such unexpected rapidity.
9 I had been doing this, in an excess of attention to his recital.
10 That we, the neophytes, might have an excess of light shining upon us all at once, orders were given to let out Twenty Eight.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS 11 By gymnastics and careful attention to his health he had brought himself to such a point that in spite of his excess in pleasure he looked as fresh as a big glossy green Dutch cucumber.
12 The point which we consider it our duty to note is, that outside of and beyond his faith, as it were, the Bishop possessed an excess of love.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 13 Whether there had not been an excess of weights in one balance of the scale, in the one which contains expiation.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 14 I repeat, brothers, I repeat, no zeal, no hubbub, no excess; even in witticisms, gayety, jollities, or plays on words.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES 15 You are fond of apple turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES