"Excessive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... severity. As I listened; with some surprise at the multiplicity of errors which the most successful general of France had contrived to squeeze into a single month of operations, I observed a man, of a pale thin visage, like one suffering from ill health or excessive mental toil, but of a singularly intellectual expression; standing at a slight distance from the group of ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 • Various
... excessive politeness, waiting until the last moment, and escorting me to the shore. It made me smile to observe his pretense at gallantry, yet I accepted his assistance down the bank with all possible graciousness, speaking to him so pleasantly ...
— Beyond the Frontier • Randall Parrish
... also honest and thrifty, and exceedingly hard-working. The industry of the people is unceasing. Indeed it is excessive; for they work Sunday and Saturday. Sunday has long ceased to be a Sabbath in France. There is no day of rest there. Before the Revolution, the saints' days which the Church ordered to be observed so encroached ...
— The Huguenots in France • Samuel Smiles
... everything into consideration the sum is excessive. But if you do not mind facing the risks of my non-appearance, to say nothing of your own, you ...
— Finished • H. Rider Haggard
... fifty-four Christians, who were burned alive for the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have already written how there was in the public prison at Meaco a large number of the faithful, incarcerated because they would not bend the knee to Baal. Nine of these died in the prison on account of the excessive labors and hardships which they suffered there. They died thoroughly resigned to the divine will, and rejoicing in their happy fate. When the emperor came to the court of the Dayri, [10] the metropolis of the whole of Japon, they told him of the ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 • Emma Helen Blair
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