Another great evil is the extent to which our Education tends to overstock the labour market with material for quill-drivers and shopmen, and gives our youth a distaste for sturdy labour.
"In-Darkest-England-and-the-Way-Out"
Booth, William
On Wednesday, Mr. Hunt gave audience to several tax-gatherers, to whose importunities he did not listen with an overstock of complacency.
"Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 3"
Henry Hunt
New evictions on an enormous scale followed the famine, the clearance of what was then called in the phrase of current English economics "the surplus population," "the overstock tenantry."
"Irish Nationality"
Alice Stopford Green