overplus

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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

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

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 Hamlin, Augustus C.

The overplus, which will come to about thirty pounds each, is to be applied for the relief of the widows and orphans of those who have nobly fallen in the action.

From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I by Ross, John, Sir

Their silence is more eloquent than words, Their passing out is but life's overplus, Their tongues are tempered into two-edged swords.

From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Richmond, Hiram Hoyt