overplus

Example Sentences

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Each overplus and each deficiency You will make good.

From Italy, the Magic Land by Whiting, Lilian

It will be asked, Why did not this overplus do as other crowded Americans did: move west?

From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace

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

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

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.