| Stevenson achieved in this work a remarkable richness of tragic texture in a style stripped of all superfluities. |
| But omissions and superfluities are inevitable in such a book. |
| Thus the tendency of the eliminative faculty is step by step upwards, until the superfluities reach the mouth. |
| Pittacus said, most that is happy where superfluities are not required and necessaries are not wanting. |
| Stone and gravel arise from various viscous superfluities in the kidneys and bladder, which occasion difficulty in micturition. |
| I noted at once in your writing the power to cut through superfluities, the hardness of attack that I favor. |
