superflux
- a word derived from flux.
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 Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Waugh, Edwin
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)
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)
O I haue tane Too little care of this: Take Physicke, Pompe, Expose thy selfe to feele what wretches feele, That thou maist shake the superflux to them, And shew the Heauens more iust.
From King Lear by Shakespeare, William
We," they say, "convert our superflux to jewels and costly apparel for our females, and we have the gratification of seeing them well apparelled and agreeably ornamented.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Jackson, James Grey
