filling-up

He was not a playgoer, being of such fastidious taste that he was easily disgusted by the bad filling-up of the inferior parts.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

Though the above particulars be little more than the filling-up of an outline already clearly traced and constantly present whenever those characteristic tales recurred to us, -- by those who have held other ideas with regard to the authorship of "Jane Eyre" they will be found at once curious and interesting from the plain and earnest sincerity of the writer.

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various

The enormous depth of alluvial soil found in the _bolsones_ or depressions of the Mexican plateau, formed from rock-decay, or of volcanic material accumulated by the great lakes of recent times which covered them in the central part of the great _mesa central_, bear striking evidence to the filling-up process of the past.

Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919

“Quite right, ” said the stranger; “and in regard to this very filling-up, such a piece, were the players once trained to these performances, would profit greatly.

Chapter IX. Book II 1917

“One should not, then, ” replied our friend, “consider an extempore piece as, strictly speaking, composed on the spur of the moment; but as a piece of which the plan, action and division of the scenes were given, the filling-up of all this being left to the player.

Chapter IX. Book II 1917

Before the oysters arrived, and Martin Cortright appeared to fill the fourth seat, she had completely relaxed, and was beaming at the brass jugs and pottery beakers ranged along a shelf above the dark wainscot, and at the general company, while the warmth from the fire logs gave her really a very pretty colour, and she began to question Martin as to who all these people, indicating the rapidly filling-up tables, were.

People of the Whirlpool Mabel Osgood Wright 1896

There is still a vast deal of filling-up to be done in America, mostly in the rural parts.

The Rural Life Problem of the United States Notes of an Irish Observer Horace Curzon Plunkett 1893

It has been said that the filling-up of this chapter, as to the rank and file of the novelists of 1800-1830, has been a matter of some difficulty in the peculiar circumstances of the case.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

Efforts were then made to approach Honda, but he was conveniently absent "on account of his health," and the ensuing correspondence occupied several days, during which the pulling-down and filling-up went on by day and by night.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Nay more, till within a few years ago; Milton's own house in Barbican, with some modern change of frontage, and some filling-up of interstices right and left, was extant and known.

The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864