overplus

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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

There was a very great overplus of every thing, it seemed, in the world.

From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

She has overplus of life to speak and right herself from first to last, to pardon her husband and make arrangements for the welfare of her child.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

Foremost is the sun, of course, because of the overplus of light.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck

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