overplus
Example Sentences
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Fifteen pounds of luggage are allowed, and twenty-one francs per cent is charged for the overplus.
From Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France by Holdsworth, J. H.
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
Complete expresses not excess or overplus, and yet not mere sufficiency, but harmony, proportion, fitness to a design, or ideal.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
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
Her cloudy condition possibly indicates an overplus of water.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck
