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.

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

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

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

“You may judge, my lord; the poor people pay with the overplus of the harvest; this year there has been no overplus; on the contrary, every one is behind in point even of necessities.”

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro

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