overplus
Example Sentences
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Each overplus and each deficiency You will make good.
From Italy, the Magic Land by Lilian Whiting
Just imagine'—working himself up to nervous irritation—'being at the mercy of some healthy, high-spirited young creature, who will insult me every day with her overplus of pure animal enjoyment.
From Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey
The rent may then be taken, including all expences, and the overplus left in the hands of the constable for the owner's use.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton
His face—that of a man whom a sufficiency, but not an overplus, of food and wine and tobacco had put into just accord with the World about him—expressed little but bewilderment.
From Abington Abbey A Novel by Archibald Marshall
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
