One apology will suffice; these hyperboles of phrase are almost sinful.
"Ernest Maltravers, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
He loved to play with distinctions, hyperboles, paradoxes, the very casuistry and dialectics of love or devotion.
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers
The love of virtue and justice flowed from Numa's wisdom as from a fountain, and the serenity of his spirit diffused itself, like a calm, on all sides; so that the hyperboles of poets were flat and tame to express what then existed; as that Over the iron shield the spiders hang their threads, or that Rust eats the pointed spear and double-edged sword.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh