overplus

Example Sentences

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There is also an overplus of conversation through the thing that seems like talking at a mark for $2 a week.

From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Nye, Bill

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 Andrews, Charles McLean

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 dockmoney of his office.

From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul

The overplus, if any, was to be carried to the credit of the Sooloos.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 by Various

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