over-tightly

Updated: May 15, 2025

Now, the establishment of Scamperley, although doubtless the bonds of domestic discipline were by no means over-tightly drawn, was one in which servants, from the stately curly-headed "groom of the chambers," down to the little boy in green that was always too late for the post, had more than enough upon their hands.

G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville - Kate Coventry: An Autobiography