| In so far forth, they express the surplusage of vitality over need, the creative freedom of life at play. |
| Art in writing, as in sculpture, often consists in the removal of surplusage. |
| Therefore, all reference to it must be thrown out as meaningless surplusage. |
| A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature. |
| This was a surplusage of duty but not cause for impeachment. |
| That out of her danger had resulted the engagement Diane had hoped for was surplusage of good luck. |
