overplus
Example Sentences
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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 dockmoney of his office.
From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul
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 Thomas Carlyle
And if there be fewer, the overplus may be omitted: Provided that this last Collect, Epistle, and Gospel shall always be used upon the Sunday next before Advent.
From The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland
If in his longer poems there is sometimes a lack of last finish, and an overplus of language—there is a frankness of utterance and a billowy undulation of movement that have compensating charms.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell
The 427 overplus, which is not very considerable, goes to the profit of the city.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) by Various
