over-takes

Updated: May 9, 2025

But it should be understood that a common, low-priced structure is not the best economy, or the most desirable for a series of years. The dilapidated appearance that soon over-takes cheap, make-shift constructions, creates an impression that cannot be pleasing either to the spectator or the proprietor.

F. W. (Francis W.) Woodward - Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings