overplus

Example Sentences

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When this process is performed with exact attention to chemical laws, so that the acid and alkali completely neutralize each other, leaving no overplus of either, the result is often very 160 palatable.

From Household Papers and Stories by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

At the end of each year, the account is balanced, and the overplus or deficit is transferred to the succeeding one.

From Religion in Japan by Cobbold, George A. (George Augustus)

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

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 dock-money of his office.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas