It must be said for painters that they do not spoil a place as other visitors so often do; in fact, all change -- modernising, restoring, destroying -- is opposed to their sense of fitness; they are champions of the picturesque and sworn foes of the jerry-builder. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The jerry-builder, who just throws his houses together, makes atonement for the flimsy structure by putting in ❋ 1817-1893 (1922)
More than ever that day the suburb had oppressed him; insignificant, detestable, repulsive to body and mind, it was the only hell that a vulgar age could conceive or make, an inferno created not by Dante but by the jerry-builder. ❋ Arthur Machen (1905)
A jerry-builder whose houses have been condemned writes anonymously and becomes the ❋ Unknown (1905)
Repeatedly suggests that the jerry-builder was a hard nut to crack then as now. ❋ Unknown (1902)
But though fruit-growing has spread in every direction, we can with ease escape beyond its limits, and even within them we may still find cornfields, rich pasture and woodlands, thriving farms, and villages still unspoiled by the modern "jerry-builder." ❋ Unknown (1901)
Towards the end of their journey she had to direct the cabman; and past the last long row or little red-brick villas, in a waste from which the agriculturalist had retired in favour of the jerry-builder, they came to the goal, three dirty, tumble-down cottages. ❋ Edgar Jepson (1900)
Formerly it had been an unpretentious cottage like the others, but she had added a new wing of red brick built in the most approved style of the jerry-builder, and looking like the villas in the more modern parts of Rexton. ❋ Fergus Hume (1895)
He had begun life as a small jerry-builder at Golder's Green, and had ended it a millionaire and a knight. ❋ William Le Queux (1895)
It was on the tip of Hugh's tongue to remark with sarcasm that such ideals might well be expected of the wife of a jerry-builder in Golder's green. ❋ William Le Queux (1895)
There remains but to add that he was commissioned by a magazine to visit this old-world Hertfordshire village and depict some of its beauties before a projected railway introduced the jerry-builder and a sewerage scheme, and his presence in the White Horse Inn is explained. ❋ Louis Tracy (1895)
I have not made speculative purchases of land, I am not booming a generous jerry-builder. ❋ Israel Zangwill (1895)
Again, an alteration in the light and shade will create beautiful pictures among the meanest brick buildings that ever were run up by the jerry-builder. ❋ Unknown (1892)
There were several rows of narrow pews made of common painted deal, -- there was a brown stone font and a light pine-wood pulpit -- a small harmonium stood in one corner, festooned by a faded red woollen curtain, and a general air of the cheap upholsterer and jerry-builder hovered over the whole concern. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)
Happy are they if they can find a piece of land marked for sale, where the jerry-builder has not yet commenced a suburban slum. ❋ Thomas Holmes (1882)
"Repeatedly" suggests that the jerry-builder was a hard nut to crack then as now. ❋ Unknown (1881)
Bower Lane by name, full of brown brick houses, all as like as peas, and with nothing of any sort to redeem their plain fronts from the common blight of the London jerry-builder. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
Londoners hurry away from it of mornings, trudge home of evenings, bag in hand; the jerry-builder is in the land, and the dust of much traffic lies upon the rose and eglantine wherewith Milton's eyes were delighted. ❋ Anne Manning (1843)
