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overplus

[oh-ver-pluhs] / ˈoʊ vərˌplʌs /








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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 Archibald Marshall

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 L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey

They possess indeed two distinct diets; they do not preserve for the period of famine the overplus of the foods which they consume in the period of abundance.

From The Industries of Animals by Frédéric Houssay

A delay of twenty-four hours in the despatch, after posting, is rendered indispensable by the possibility there is of an overplus of such bulky packages on particular occasions.”

From Cheap Postage by Joshua Leavitt

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




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