Superfluities Sentence Examples

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  • Many people had been surprised to see a man of his genius and learning stooping to every drudgery, and denying himself almost every comfort, for the purpose of supplying a silly, affected old woman with superfluities, which she accepted with but little gratitude.

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  • Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.

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  • He made extracts from the existing law, preserving the old words, and merely cutting out repetitions, removing contradictions, retrenching superfluities, so as immensely to reduce the bulk of the whole.

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  • Rich men, out of their superfluities, were thenceforward to pay more than poor men out of their necessities.

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  • For here, again, there is no argument which will demonstrate that bile is thinner than the serous superfluities.

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  • They did not calculate how these wrung the life out of their hearts, day by day, to add to their own superfluities.

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