oversprigged

Updated: June 23, 2025

In this instance the book is the man, if we may so far change Monsieur de Buffon's saying. It is full of fresh observations and lively descriptions, perhaps a little too overlarded and oversprigged with prose and verse quotations, but as lively as a golden carp just landed.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858