Superfluous

Examples

• In disproof of which superfluous remark Sir Leicester has indignantly written on the slate, I am not. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This second cousin was a Middlemarch mercer of polite manners and superfluous aspirates. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• At length I gathered resolution to address him, in a pause of the tempest of his passion: Your repentance, I said, is now superfluous. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• This young man has left prints upon the stair-carpet which made it quite superfluous for me to ask to see those which he had made in the room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was eminently superfluous to him to be told that he was reaping the consequences. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Tell me, at least, the expenses of the republic, for no doubt you intend to retrench the superfluous? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• After being placed for an instant between blotting paper, to remove superfluous moisture, it is laid with the drawing downwards on the stone, which is slightly warmed. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It may be necessary to have dykes on portions of the seashore; they may be superfluous elsewhere. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And in doing this they were compelled to discard the precious values of art, religion and social life of which this superfluous energy is the creator. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There is always a great deal of superfluous energy aroused. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The cloth is dipped into a body of starch, or the same is applied by hand, and then the superfluous starch squeezed out as the clothes are passed through the rollers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• God knows I thought this advice superfluous for some of us. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Hence, all superfluous cash was devoted to experimentation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I remember that I thought it, in form, more like a riding-habit with the superfluous skirt cut off, than anything else. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The pressure for likemindedness in action from this source is so great that it is quite superfluous to appeal to imitation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• To feed all these superfluous mouths we shall need a part of our neighbour's land, and they will want a part of ours. Plato. The Republic.
• Comment is superfluous. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Which is something superfluous in him, for Nature has already screwed both pretty tight. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• As Mr. Yorke did not possess poetic imagination himself, he considered it a most superfluous quality in others. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mrs Chivery considered the latter precaution superfluous, but said she would try. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Minute enactments are superfluous in good states, and are useless in bad ones. Plato. The Republic.
• When profits are high, that sober virtue seems to be superfluous, and expensive luxury to suit better the affluence of his situation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Having secured me a place and a seat, he withdrew without asking a questionwithout obtruding a remark, without adding a superfluous word. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The mechanical processes designed to separate the ore from its enclosing rock or other superfluous earthy matter called _gangue_ became known as _ore dressing_ and _ore concentrating_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Miss Micawber I found made snug for stormy weather, in the same manner; with nothing superfluous about her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I abandon to you, then, what is absolutely superfluous to me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• This was said with a careless, abstracted indifference, which showed that my solicitude was, at least in his opinion, wholly superfluous. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Our warning would have been superfluous; and now I am thankful we came too late to give it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Superfluous property is the creature of society. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The engraver or finisher then takes charge of it, preparing the engraving for the routing department, where the superfluous metal is removed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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