overplus

Example Sentences

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And if there be fewer, the overplus may be omitted: Provided that this last Collect, Epistle, and Gospel shall always be used upon the Sunday next before Advent.

From The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland

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

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 Cobbold, George A. (George Augustus)

Any overplus at the year’s end, any unexpected addition to their means, sooner or later found its way into the booksellers’ hands.

From The Inglises Or, How the Way Opened by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

They possess indeed two distinct diets; they do not preserve for the period of famine the overplus of the foods which they consume in the period of abundance.

From The Industries of Animals by Houssay, Frédéric