over-built

Updated: May 25, 2025

Over-built, over-everythinged, but still tolerable. The General lives there with his sister, and promises to write to me about houses, and Sir Jasper in a house a few miles off." "He is Bernard's father-in-law?" "Yes," said Gertrude; "and my brother Harry married a sister of Lady Merrifield, a most delightful person as ever I saw.

Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Long Vacation

I offered him a chair and a cigar, and he came to the point with commendable rapidity. "Leigh," he said, directly he had lighted his cigar, "is too small for Arthur Jukes and myself." "Ah, you have been talking it over and decided to move?" I said, delighted. "I think you are perfectly right. Leigh is over-built. Men like you and Jukes need a lot of space. Where do you think of going?"

P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse - The Clicking of Cuthbert

All heaped and crowded and over-built, solid and ragged, decaying and defying decay, clinging to her traditions with both hands, old Rome jostled before us.

Sara Jeannette Duncan - A Voyage of Consolation: (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An: American girl in London')

In 1900 the chief producing creek was Myrtle, which is a tributary of Slate Creek, and the town at the mouth was in eligible situation, though much over-built from the first. Then the centre of interest shifted to Nolan Creek, fifteen miles farther up the river, which is a tributary of Wiseman Creek, and the town of Wiseman sprang up at the mouth of that creek.

Hudson Stuck - Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled: A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska

"I am ignorant of these matters," said Philip; "but I should have thought that would have increased the difficulty of the situation." The crisp remark was wasted on her. She looked hopelessly at the raw over-built country, and said, "Well, I have explained." "But pardon me, Miss Abbott; of most of your conduct you have given a description rather than an explanation."

E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread

Indeed, it is at this moment rather over-built. A beautiful and healthy town, however, it is; and that it may not suffer materially or permanently from the causes above mentioned, but continue to prosper as formerly, is a wish that comes from the very bottom of my heart. The establishment is altogether an economical one, and, on the whole, well conducted.

G. F. Davidson - Trade and Travel in the Far East: or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java,: Singapore, Australia and China.