Bulstrode had to the satisfaction of providing the money which had been serviceable to Lydgate—that it would be unkind in Lydgate not to grant her the position of being his helper in this small matter, the favor being entirely to her who had so little that was plainly marked out for her to do with her superfluous money.
Garth offered him, and returning it, which he could easily do by giving up all futile money-spending, since he had a superfluous stock of clothes, and no expense in his board.
Their fears were quite superfluous: they were very much mistaken if they imagined that he would put himself forward as a needy adventurer trying to win the favor of a rich woman.
Dorothea, he said to himself, was forever enthroned in his soul: no other woman could sit higher than her footstool; and if he could have written out in immortal syllables the effect she wrought within him, he might have boasted after the example of old Drayton, that,— "Queens hereafter might be glad to live Upon the alms of her superfluous praise.
When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.
With the superfluous securities of hope at his command, there was no reason why he should not have increased other people's liabilities to any extent, but for the fact that men whose names were good for anything were usually pessimists, indisposed to believe that the universal order of things would necessarily be agreeable to an agreeable young gentleman.
It was eminently superfluous to him to be told that he was reaping the consequences.
If they who believe in Strickland's greatness are right, the personal narratives of such as knew him in the flesh can hardly be superfluous.
Peter Blewett only by sight as a small, shrewish-faced woman without an ounce of superfluous flesh on her bones.
The bed I used to sleep in became too small, and words of care from my parents began to sound superfluous.
All else is superfluous.
The message to the candidate is plain: not only have you failed, you have also wasted time and effort building up redundant diplomas, superfluous career experience and unnecessary technical skills.
You might find it superfluous or tiresome when friends share their times for their latest mile run on social media.
The superfluous argument of our time is, more often than not, the finger-wagging warning of economic doom.
Author Unknown Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, while everything superfluous runs over as from a full container.
If you have a plan tostock money away in an emergency fund, for example, you'll think twice aboutspending on superfluous things.
The vows were proper to the scene, Superfluous was the bite.
Shelly You may conquer with the sword ,but you are comquered by a kiss , -------Daniel Heinsius For it was not into my ear you whispered ,but into my heart ,It was not my lips you killed ,but my soul ,;, -------Judy Garland A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous , -------Ingrid bergman To me ,there is no greater act o fcourage than being the one who kisses first , ------Janeane Garofalo Kissing is a means of g
He just saw them as superfluous an encumbrance.
Why so many questions, in a busy day like ours, when poetry is very nearly superfluous, when it is agreed that the many "immortal" productions of today' s poets will, in the future, perhaps exist only in the form of charcoal tracings on a prison wall, seen and read only by a few curiosity seekers?
