overplus
Example Sentences
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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 Mitchell, Donald G.
Their silence is more eloquent than words, Their passing out is but life's overplus, Their tongues are tempered into two-edged swords.
From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Richmond, Hiram Hoyt
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)
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
Complete expresses not excess or overplus, and yet not mere sufficiency, but harmony, proportion, fitness to a design, or ideal.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
