overplus

Example Sentences

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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 business is no longer to produce the supplies for his family and to share the small overplus with society.

From The Holy Earth by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

And in this sense it was perfectly normal, healthy, and sound, more especially in so far as it provided for the gradual drawing away overplus metal to the East.

From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur

And if there be fewer, the overplus may be omitted: Provided that this last Collect, Epistle, and Gospel shall always be used upon the Sunday next before Advent.

From The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland

Let Nature but interpose a sheet of water or a bit of wood, and the merriest joy-bells that ever rang are infused with that melancholy which is the overplus of rapture.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various