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Excessive bail shall not be required nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Excessive amiability and excessive liberality are the two favorite assumptions of the modern generation.

A PIGEON, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard.

I say at once there are fewer difficulties in holding hereditary states, and those long accustomed to the family of their prince, than new ones; for it is sufficient only not to transgress the customs of his ancestors, and to deal prudently with circumstances as they arise, for a prince of average powers to maintain himself in his state, unless he be deprived of it by some extraordinary and excessive force; and if he should be so deprived of it, whenever anything sinister happens to the usurper, he will regain it.

It was in nothing more or less than the excessive "familiarity" of ordinary married life, and the lack of personal freedom allowed both parties to the contract.

This is a common experience, for the excessive consumption of alcohol in the tropics by white men is a notorious fact.

I will not disguise my sentiments on this change from you, my dear mother, though I think you had better not communicate them to my father, whose excessive anxiety about Reginald would subject him to an alarm which might seriously affect his health and spirits.

The excessive physical charm of the Creole had first attracted her, for Edna had a sensuous susceptibility to beauty.

The greater part of them had fasted since morning; all had suffered extremely from the excessive heat; and between the day's shouting, exertion, and excitement, many had quite lost their voices, and so much of their strength that they could hardly stand.

The cold is excessive. The snow falls heavily and without interruption.

Pestsov, who was standing beside him, was talking to him almost all the time, condemning the music for its excessive affected assumption of simplicity, and comparing it with the simplicity of the Pre-Raphaelites in painting.

By the time they have lounged up and down the promenade of the Equator awhile, they start for the Oriental waters in anticipation of the cool season there, and so evade the other excessive temperature of the year.