overplus
Example Sentences
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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 dockmoney of his office.
From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul
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
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.
The overplus, if any, was to be carried to the credit of the Sooloos.
There is also an overplus of conversation through the thing that seems like talking at a mark for $2 a week.
From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Nye, Bill
