Avoiding surplusage is important, especially since judges have enough to read. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Barred] Reference
Furthermore I said to him, “O my brother, I am wont to cast up my shop accounts at the head of every year, and whatso I shall find of surplusage is between me and thee.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
"surplusage" as though he were to give a written declaration that he was. From Wordnik.com. [Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General] Reference
Article V is mere surplusage when we have the Supreme Court. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Sotomayor Vote:] Reference
The phrase “and subject to the police power thereof” seems surplusage. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Help Draft the Federalism Restoration Amendment] Reference
It is also interesting that the book is nice, but really surplusage to many. From Wordnik.com. [The Confirmatory Bias Diet, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
A bit of advice from another American genius, Ariadna: "Eschew surplusage." by. From Wordnik.com. [Mostly, We are Idiots. So How Did We Elect a Genius?] Reference
This final clause strikes me as surplusage, and I would think it invites mischief. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Help Draft the Federalism Restoration Amendment] Reference
If it is not the free exercise clause of the First Amendment is “mere surplusage.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Sotomayor Supported Censoring Biblical Verse on Homosexuality from New York City Billboard”:] Reference
But that would render the words “for public use” in the clause to be mere surplusage. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Questionable Taking in Milwaukee:] Reference
DTL - the word "when" is "mere surplusage ... entirely without meaning, if such is to be the construction.". From Wordnik.com. ["The more we play God or try to improve on Mother Nature, the more damage we are doing with all kinds of experiments that... turn into nightmares."] Reference
After the Root-Marshall exchange, the following document probably is surplusage, but I usually assign it anyway. From Wordnik.com. [Anglo-Saxonism at the New York Constitutional Convention, 1915] Reference
Also interesting because it skips a lot of the surplusage that makes so much 18th century writing difficult toread. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Obama Should Seek Legislative Support for Anti-Terror Policies:] Reference
Sometimes the final differentia of the subdivision is sufficient by itself, and the antecedent differentiae are mere surplusage. From Wordnik.com. [On the Parts of Animals] Reference
Of Auricular figures that serue to make the meetre tuneable and melodious, but not by defect nor surplusage, disorder nor exchange. From Wordnik.com. [The Arte of English Poesie] Reference
Such a law would be surplusage at any rate, roughly on par with laws naming post offices for sports figures and official statebirds. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Fierce advocacy:] Reference
Though the labouring mind exert and strain each power to its utmost reach, there still stands out ungrasped a surplusage immeasurable. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
Divested of its diplomatic surplusage, it said: The United States is prepared to defeat any power, or combination of powers, in jig time. From Wordnik.com. [The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein]
A city directory would have been a surplusage, and we flattered the "garcon" by seeming to believe everything he said, exclaiming "Oh my!". From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
Such opulence in anyone at such a moment would have seemed a needless taunt; that chance had selected the superintendent to flaunt it was surplusage of insult. From Wordnik.com. [Winner Take All] Reference
"Say what you have to say, what you have a will to say, in the simplest, the most direct and exact manner possible, with no surplusage," Walter Pater has spoken. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Fairy Tales] Reference
There is hardly another example in homiletic literature of such compactness, such solidity, such logical consecutiveness, such cogency, such freedom from surplusage. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
The English Churchman, who, on returning from abroad, puts all his surplusage of Swiss silver -- ten and twenty centime-pieces -- into the offertory bag or plate. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 19, 1891] Reference
All other sorts of surplusage, I accompt rather vicious then figuratiue, & therefore not melodious as shalbe remembred in the chapter of viciosities or faultie speaches. From Wordnik.com. [The Arte of English Poesie] Reference
He also made provision for the surplusage of the tribute. From Wordnik.com. [The Annals of the Cakchiquels] Reference
His account was heavy enough as it stood without piling up surplusage. From Wordnik.com. [The Fighting Edge] Reference
And "by the Board of Directors" -- which is surplusage, since Mrs. Eddy owns the Board. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science] Reference
Cease to come to these annual orgies in this hollow modern mockery -- the surplusage of raiment. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain's Speeches] Reference
A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature. From Wordnik.com. [Essays — First Series] Reference
The idea is suggested of a surplusage of power; of an instrument beyond the needs of its possessor. From Wordnik.com. [Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays] Reference
She herself was a victim -- as was the gentleman after whom she was named -- of a surplusage of femininity about the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Madigans] Reference
"Bonfires to-night -- and big ones, too!" cried Andy, and let off his surplusage of spirits by turning several handsprings. From Wordnik.com. [The Rover Boys at Colby Hall or The Struggles of the Young Cadets] Reference
Ohio claims these new problems are "immaterial surplusage to the facts which clearly support" Keith's conviction and sentence. From Wordnik.com. [Lead Stories from AOL] Reference
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