over-doers

Updated: June 30, 2026

And for his manners, he makes such a bustle with them, and about them, as would induce one to suspect that they are more strangers than familiars to him. You, I know, lay this to his fearfulness of disobliging or offending. Indeed your over-doers generally give the offence they endeavour to avoid.

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2