overplus

Example Sentences

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There was a very great overplus of every thing, it seemed, in the world.

From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

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 Houssay, Frédéric

The successful farmer is the one who produces more than he needs for his support; and the overplus he does not keep; and, moreover, his own needs are easily satisfied.

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

Any overplus at the year’s end, any unexpected addition to their means, sooner or later found its way into the booksellers’ hands.

From The Inglises Or, How the Way Opened by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

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