| 1. | "Ten years, and five as a supernumerary make fifteen.. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 2. | "The study does not take long it was acting as a supernumerary that was so tedious.. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 3. | 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. - from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving |
| 4. | 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. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 5. | On this last consideration I cannot but attribute these also to the fruitfulness of his invention, since as he has managed them they are a sort of supernumerary pictures of the persons or things to which they were joined. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |