overplus

Example Sentences

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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.

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 Leavitt, Joshua

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)

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

Why should this overplus, of more than seven millions of pounds of meal, be sent to this prison, when the army of Virginia was calling loudly for grain?

From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Hamlin, Augustus C.