Historical Examples

• When the price of wool is high, the farmers are too reluctant to sell off their sheep, and thus become liable to an overstock.

  Address delivered by Hon. Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan, before the Central Michigan Agricultural Society, at their Sheep-shearing Exhibition held at the Agricultural College Farm, on Thursday, May 24th, 1866

  Henry Howland Crapo

• But it is not an overstock, for they have all India as a prey.

  Following the Equator, Complete

  Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

• Not until he had accumulated an overstock of bridge-iron did he think of using iron for the frames of buildings.

  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14)

  Elbert Hubbard

• I hear the skeptic say: You will overstock the market, and your fruit will not pay the cost of transportation.

  Florida: Past and present

  Samuel Curtis Upham

• At times, such is the overstock of importations, that goods are sold at lower prices in Valparaiso than in Europe.

  Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests

  J. J. von Tschudi