overplus
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The overplus, which will come to about thirty pounds each, is to be applied for the relief of the widows and orphans of those who have nobly fallen in the action.
From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I by Sir John Ross
Hollybank was no longer needed in 1900 to take the overplus from Bankwell, and a Master was put in charge of it, in the hope that older boys would come.
From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Edward Allen Bell
Milford was settled partly from New Haven and partly from Wethersfield, where an overplus of clergy was leading to disputes and many withdrawals to other parts.
From The Fathers of New England A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths by Charles McLean Andrews
Surplus, sur′plus, n. the overplus: excess above what is required.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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
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