Much intemperance

Usage examples of excesses.

Burning one moment, shivering the next, Caressing you while showering you with tears, Giving each charm a thousand eager kisses, Wishing to touch at once a thousand blisses And, at the ones beyond my power, vexed, Abandoned in a furious desire, Leaving these charms for other charms that fire, Possessing all and yet desiring Until, destroyed by excesses of pleasure, Finding no words of love nor anything To express my fires overflowing measure Than deepening sighs and obscure murmuring: Ah!

This young man seemed intended by nature for shameful excesses, for at the age of fourteen he was an accomplished profligate.

Alex and Elizabeth had the habitual weaknesses and excesses of the Stanhope.

In such a state, should you find me inexorable, you would very likely give way to excesses which would afterwards cause you deep sorrow.

Those who were most famous in my younger days were Ancilla and another called Spina, both the daughters of gondoliers, and both killed very young by the excesses of a profession which, in their eyes, was a noble one.