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Alvan, looking indolently royal and royally roguish, quoted a verse that speaks of the superfluousness of a faithless lady's vowing bite: 'The kisses were in the course of things, The bite was a needless addition. Clotilde could not repress her reddening Count Kollin had repeated too much! She dropped her eyes, with a face of sculpture, then resumed their chatter.
Another fault of superfluousness we find in the number of compounded words, where the meaning is obvious, such, for instance, as are formed with the adverb out, which the genius of the language permits without limit in the case of verbs. Dr. Worcester gives us, among many others, "OUT-BABBLE, v. a. To surpass in Idle prattle; to exceed in babbling. Milton." "OUT-BELLOW, v. a.
Only some thirty arid summers had he seen; those summers had dried up all his physical superfluousness. But this, his thinness, so to speak, seemed no more the token of wasting anxieties and cares, than it seemed the indication of any bodily blight. It was merely the condensation of the man. He was by no means ill-looking; quite the contrary.
The man who comes himself and hands you his card also is apt to have too many elbows at a dinner, too many feet at a ball. He has about him a suggestion of awkward superfluousness that is subtly consistent with his duplicate announcement of himself.
"Well, I wanted to come, anyway," said Larry, with a placating grin. "I say, that is an awful nice dog!" "You never call foxhounds 'dogs'!" said Christian, still with hauteur; "Larry, you are an owl!" But she enjoyed the consciousness of knowing more than he did; she even forgave him his superfluousness.
If, then, the problem is not to make the "surplus population" useful, to transform it into available population, but merely to let it starve to death in the least objectionable way and to prevent its having too many children, this, of course, is simple enough, provided the surplus population perceives its own superfluousness and takes kindly to starvation.
Not to mention the superfluousness of the addition of the word impossible to indicate the apodeictic certainty, which ought to be self-evident from the proposition itself, the proposition is affected by the condition of time, and as it were says: "A thing = A, which is something = B, cannot at the same time be non-B." But both, B as well as non-B, may quite well exist in succession.
I have it myself I have it, I tell you!" shouted Father Tim; in his voice the appeal to a merciful Heaven to grant patience was unmistakable. Sister Maria Joseph, recognising with trembling her superfluousness, withdrew. "It's Barty will have that job we were speaking of just now, before you were coaxing Sister Maria Joseph to go away from you," resumed Dr. Mangan.
How one of them wondered, quite audibly, where in the world Major Dabney had unearthed that young native! Tom was conscious of every fleck of dust on his clothes and shoes; of the skilless knot in his necktie; of the school-desk droop in his shoulders; of the utter superfluousness of his big hands.
He was at the opposite pillar, smirking and saying to himself, "How lucky it is that I have anticipated the Vossian!" He then was silent, but his thoughts were active, and in the bottom of his heart he instituted some very serious reflections upon the superfluousness of a second newspaper, how perfectly unnecessary it was in fact. "This Vossian Gazette is perfectly intolerable," thought he.
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