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

Let Nature but interpose a sheet of water or a bit of wood, and the merriest joy-bells that ever rang are infused with that melancholy which is the overplus of rapture.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various

When this process is performed with exact attention to chemical laws, so that the acid and alkali completely neutralize each other, leaving no overplus of either, the result is often very 160 palatable.

From Household Papers and Stories by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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 Bell, Edward Allen

“You may judge, my lord; the poor people pay with the overplus of the harvest; this year there has been no overplus; on the contrary, every one is behind in point even of necessities.”

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro