"Well, not personally," said Joe, "though I can't boast of a superfluity of money myself.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles] Reference

And so-called superfluity is agreeable and usefully disposed of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unnatural Death]

Sheep have in their fleeces a superfluity which is not for them, and which still grows and renews, as it were to invite men to shear them every year.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Existence of God] Reference

Where, then, was any need of a superfluity of powers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

There is naturally a generous superfluity in all human behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference

His tales are overladen with detail and superfluity of minute description.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maxim Gorki] Reference

Do not omit words when they are needed, and do not use a superfluity of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference

All this parade of force was mere superfluity; Verona had no desire to revolt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

Rima was a name applied by the physicians of Salernum to a superfluity of hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference

If their views are correct, then such a law would be a mere harmless superfluity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference

Dirt is the essence of savagery, and there is a superfluity of both in the Soudan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference

And he was mortified by a more serious charge than murmurs about superfluity of zeal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

Meanwhile every year I would give of my superfluity to the aid of patriotic effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference

Staid people generally neglect it as a frivolity; utilitarians, as a costly superfluity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Simple Life] Reference

Adieu all care! the Wedding is at hand, who thinks now of any thing but superfluity of mirth?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple] Reference

If these are the principles of Neo-conservatism, our case is made out with a superfluity of proof.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference

We would not be charged with the superfluity of commending to scholars the writings of Mr. Spencer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference

His long thick hair, however, renders the head-gear an article of superfluity, -- but it is the fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2)] Reference

It would be a grateful task to add that the result proves the superfluity of these time-worn accessories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11] Reference

I shall give another anecdote in refutation of the statement made in the prospectus, albeit a superfluity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

As for the vegetables, a superfluity of carrots is a burden, and turnips should be used with a sparing hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference

As a preacher, it is not fitting for me to enjoy a superfluity, nor do I covet it; ... therefore I beseech your.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Luther] Reference

But the hens will be glad of our superfluity, and so will the pigs, though we have neither hens nor pigs of our own.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference

The seeming superfluity is rendered necessary through some artists knowing a pigment by one name and some by another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

His table had nothing of the superfluity, nor his palace any thing of the magnificence, of several of his predecessors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

In this manner he economized on the cost of a night-robe and the time it would consume to don and doff such a superfluity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference

He was afforded an opportunity to obtain a wardrobe, but to the mountaineer, such property would be entirely a superfluity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference

Commission, the American people at home might well have asked -- Is not American civilization a superfluity in those islands?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

He did not stop to consider that she might not have a home and a bed, but continued on his way with his superfluity of matches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope] Reference

A constant fusillade of small arms and singing of bullets were kept up, indicative of a superfluity of disorder, if not of ammunition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

He was clad in tightfitting sage-green felt, so it appeared, with a superfluity of straps, buttons, lacings, and harness of all sorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collectors] Reference

The poor details of her life he contrives to lose under a purposed artlessness of narrative and a caressing superfluity of loyal eulogy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference