over-green

Updated: July 4, 2025

One look at Bentinck-Major's garden told a great deal about Bentinck- Major. The flower-beds, the trim over-green lawn, the neat paths, the trees in their fitting places, all spoke not only of a belief in material things but a desire also to demonstrate that one so believed.... One expected indeed to see the Bentinck-Major arms over the front-door. They were there in spirit if not in fact.

Sir Hugh Walpole - The Cathedral