overplus
Example Sentences
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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.
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.