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  • If students are idle, examinations are unavailing; and, if they are industrious, examinations are superfluous,

    Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

  • Whilst Miss Lant and Jane were straining their wits on the hardest of all problems -- to find a means of livelihood for one whom society pronounced utterly superfluous,

    The Nether World George Gissing 1880

  • 'Its base and cornice, its solid cast-iron structure, and its open mouth emphasized by moldings are, from the point of view of the functionalist architect, entirely superfluous,

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • 03: 021: 018 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,

    The Bible, King James version, Book 3: Leviticus Anonymous

  • 03: 021: 018 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,

    New Etext of Bible [King James Version]

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