Example Sentences

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Take physic, pomp, Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice

I do not think that I have overdrawn at Hammersley's; but if that be the case, I can draw for the superflux on Hoare's.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens just.

From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil)

Untold indeed! then can you not expend Your superflux on some diviner end?

From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by Conington, John

No wonder that the theatre, which can only be fed by the superflux of all other departments of society, should droop, neglected and unsupported.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)