Crossword-Solution: SURFEITS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

There was a most excessive plenty of all sorts of fruit, such as apples, pears, plums, cherries, grapes, and they were the cheaper because of the want of people; but this made the poor eat them to excess, and this brought them into fluxes, griping of the guts, surfeits, and the like, which often precipitated them into the plague.

Alack! For that we seem indeed To have slipped the world’s great leaping-time, and come Upon thy pinched and dozing days: these weeds, These corporal leavings, thou not cast’st us new, Fresh from thy craftship, like the lilies’ coats, But foist’st us off With hasty tarnished piecings negligent, Snippets and waste From old ancestral wearings, That have seen sorrier usage; remainder-flesh After our father’s surfeits; nay with chinks, Some of us, that if speech may have free leave Our souls go out at elbows.

Thou hast years upon thee, and thou art too full Of the wars’ surfeits to go rove with one That’s yet unbruised.

Pray be friendly with her, but remember, also, that she is not a person with whom to take liberties." Large, round-shouldered, and clean-shaven like a chef, Virubov was for ever hitching up breeches which had slipped from a stomach ruined with surfeits of watermelon.

Now if nothing is by its own nature hard to be digested, but it is the quantity that disturbs and corrupts, I think we have still greater reason to forbear that variety with which Philo's cook, as it were in opposition to his master's practice, would draw us on to surfeits and diseases.