At any rate, I should have liked to see them try it, though I should not have liked to be kept in Ventimiglia overnight for any less reason; it seemed a lonesome place, though mighty picturesque, with old walls, and a magnificent old fort toward the sea, and a fine bridge spanning, though for the moment superfluously spanning, the perfectly dry bed of a river.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
Whether she divined or not that she was in the presence of a magnate of some sort, she was rather superfluously demure in the first two or three things she said, and was all sympathy and interest in the meeting of these old friends.
"April Hopes"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009
"He got away," she said superfluously, in a faint voice.
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Louis Joseph Vance