This, however, proved not possible because of the exceeding badness of the road.

Some curse from Heaven, certainly, has fallen on our poets, to judge by their exceeding badness.

This tract seems to us to prove only the exceeding badness of a cause for which such talents could do so little.

He was mortified, and not without reason, by the exceeding badness of the poems which appeared in honour of the battle of Blenheim.