overplus
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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
Why should this overplus, of more than seven millions of pounds of meal, be sent to this prison, when the army of Virginia was calling loudly for grain?
From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Augustus C. Hamlin
It will be asked, Why did not this overplus do as other crowded Americans did: move west?
From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart
Milford was settled partly from New Haven and partly from Wethersfield, where an overplus of clergy was leading to disputes and many withdrawals to other parts.
From The Fathers of New England A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths by Charles McLean Andrews
There was a very great overplus of every thing, it seemed, in the world.
From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda Minnie Douglas
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