overplus

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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 Bell, Edward Allen

She has overplus of life to speak and right herself from first to last, to pardon her husband and make arrangements for the welfare of her child.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

The overplus, if any, was to be carried to the credit of the Sooloos.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 by Various

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

From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace

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.