I can honestly say, in looking back over the book of my memory, that I can find no page therein which is not overwritten with the name of some pretty girl.
"The God of Love"
Justin Huntly McCarthy
The comment "overwritten" appeared again and again on the margins of such stories.
"O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921"
Various
No hand had overwritten the label of that book there raising it to the peerage, as it were.
"Angela's Business"
Henry Sydnor Harrison