overplus
Example Sentences
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Each overplus and each deficiency You will make good.
From Italy, the Magic Land by Lilian Whiting
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 dock-money of his office.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
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 Charles McLean Andrews
Surplus, sur′plus, n. the overplus: excess above what is required.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
It will be asked, Why did not this overplus do as other crowded Americans did: move west?
From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart
