But just as the calendar became overcrowded with saints' offices, which excluded almost entirely the Sunday and ferial offices, so, too, the additions of octaves created confusion and further tended to the exclusion of the old liturgical use of the Psalter and the supplanting of the Sunday and ferial offices.

They will all die of overcrowding in two or three years.

The park as it exists to-day is overcrowded with modern interests, and one only refers to these reminiscences by way of contrast.

More pitiable, because when they reached such ports as Calais or Boulogne or Havre, the hotels and lodging-houses were overcrowded from attic to cellars, the buffets had been swept clear of food, and committees of relief were already distracted with the overwhelming needs of a Belgian invasion.

Tired out from the dust and heat, I entered one of the many beer-gardens, which, while overcrowded on ordinary days, had today given up all their customers to the Brigittenau.

The Chinese seem to sleep everywhere and anywhere, and the houses are overcrowded to an extent which passes all belief.

The hall of the Lower Temple and the rooms connected with it are always overcrowded at this service meeting, and many are unable to get within hearing of the speakers on the platform.

There is overcrowding under ground as there is above.

Regular payment of wages is stipulated for, overcrowding amongst passengers is forbidden.