over-vaulteth

Updated: May 16, 2025

I am glad there are still two nooks in America where simple folk are happy just to be alive, undisturbed by the "over-weaning ambition that over-vaulteth itself" and falls back in social envy and class hate. "Our people, no, they are not ambish!" said an old Mexican to me.

Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut - Through Our Unknown Southwest