overplus
Example Sentences
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Hollybank was no longer needed in 1900 to take the overplus from Bankwell, and a Master was put in charge of it, in the hope that older boys would come.
From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Edward Allen Bell
At the end of each year, the account is balanced, and the overplus or deficit is transferred to the succeeding one.
From Religion in Japan by George A. (George Augustus) Cobbold
What kind of excess do overplus and superabundance denote? lavishness and profusion?
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
His face—that of a man whom a sufficiency, but not an overplus, of food and wine and tobacco had put into just accord with the World about him—expressed little but bewilderment.
From Abington Abbey A Novel by Archibald Marshall
She has overplus of life to speak and right herself from first to last, to pardon her husband and make arrangements for the welfare of her child.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
