overplus

Example Sentences

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The 427 overplus, which is not very considerable, goes to the profit of the city.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) by Various

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 Berdoe, Edward

Now it is clear that in this case a schoolmaster can subsist; since, in the course of the very first year, he gets an overplus beyond this dock-money of his office.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas

If in his longer poems there is sometimes a lack of last finish, and an overplus of language—there is a frankness of utterance and a billowy undulation of movement that have compensating charms.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.

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 Marshall, Archibald