How could it be that she who had always been in such demand, so needed, so driven by real duties, should have become suddenly such a
supernumerary, so footloose, and unattached?
The supply was getting less as the animals advanced in calf, and the
supernumerary milkers of the lush green season had been dismissed.
Crupp, by paying her off, throwing the first pitcher she planted on the stairs out of window, and protecting in person, up and down the staircase, a
supernumerary whom she engaged from the outer world.
Rushworth in a
supernumerary glass or two, was all joyous delight; for she had made the match; she had done everything; and no one would have supposed, from her confident triumph, that she had ever heard of conjugal infelicity in her life, or could have the smallest insight into the disposition of the niece who had been brought up under her eye.
A few days before his mother's death, when he was just sixteen, he left the Lycee Napoleon to enter as
supernumerary a government office, where an unknown protector had provided him with a place.
As a
supernumerary official, of some kind or other, aboard a packet-ship, he had visited Europe, and found means, before his return, to see Italy, and part of France and Germany.
I was, just at that epoch, in one of those moody frames of mind which make a man abnormally inquisitive about trifles: and I confess, with shame, that I busied myself in a variety of ill- bred and preposterous conjectures about this matter of the
supernumerary stateroom.
He had instructed Porthos to profit by this opportunity to see the ceremony; and Porthos, in full dress, mounted his finest horse, taking the part of
supernumerary musketeer, as D'Artagnan had so often done formerly.
Bishopriggs, serving at the time (in the absence of any better employment) as a
supernumerary at the inn, made one among the waiters who could be spared to assist at the garden-party.
And when they run over a man that is walking in his sleep, a
supernumerary sleeper in the wrong position, and wake him up, they suddenly stop the cars, and make a hue and cry about it, as if this were an exception.
His appearance, therefore, is apt to occasion some little stir at the tea-table of a farmhouse, and the addition of a
supernumerary dish of cakes or sweetmeats, or, peradventure, the parade of a silver teapot.
Now, in the event of the king's death, his successor inherits a crown, -- when the employee dies, the
supernumerary steps into his shoes, and receives his salary of twelve thousand livres.