overplus
Example Sentences
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It will be asked, Why did not this overplus do as other crowded Americans did: move west?
From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart
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 William Arthur Shaw
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
What kind of excess do overplus and superabundance denote? lavishness and profusion?
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
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
