Many who had sinned less deeply, hurried to the King withsupererogatory offers of service.
He handed the vicar his hat, performing these supererogatory offices with the patronising air of a man humouring his superior's peculiarities.
Hannah performed the supererogatory task of reading the text aloud to the vicar, who endeavoured while he listened to conceal the smile that found its way to his lips.
I do really; and the supererogatory virtue of kindness may be acknowledged out of the pale of the Romish Church.
But you are always given to surprise me with abundant kindness--with supererogatory kindness.
If, according to Protestant principles generally, there are no supererogatory meritorious works, then one would suppose that such cannot be accepted even in the case of Jesus.
They have not exerted themselves to look deeper; and it may be supererogatory to add, that at the Embassies the great question of Oriental policy is never discussed, save en petit comité.
According to one of the Pahlavi texts, persons who are wholly unable to perform good works are supposed to be entitled to a share of any supererogatory good works performed by others.
So I shall tell you, instead of any more, that I went down to the drawing-room yesterday (because it was warm enough) by an act of supererogatory virtue for which you may praise me in turn.
A severe critic might curtail that famous brevity of Cæsar's by two thirds, drawing his pen through the supererogatory veni and vidi.
But supposing there were superabundant merits, supererogatory works of Christ and the saints, who has determined their quantity?
He had such a fine chance there to accumulate supererogatory good works which he might have transferred to them to shorten their agonies, or release them entirely.
I wouldn't try it on with that supererogatory king again on this side of the Channel, if I were you.
But the supererogatory lie is the gentleman without a voucher or a ticket who accommodates himself with a stool in the passage.
She hated what she called the mess of the ship and the idea, if she should go above, of meeting stewards with plates of supererogatory food.
That a wife take care how she ascribe supererogatory merit to herself; so as to take the faults of others upon her.
The first-lieutenant, followed by the master, brushed by him, and was up the ladder before his supererogatory communication could be delivered.
It is supererogatory to assume that Shakespeare had Chapman's phrases in his mind when alluding to superstitions which were universally acknowledged.
