overplus

Example Sentences

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The overplus, which will come to about thirty pounds each, is to be applied for the relief of the widows and orphans of those who have nobly fallen in the action.

From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I by Ross, John, Sir

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)

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.