1876 J. B. L. Warren ii. i. 63 Gone like the shadow of a rose petal, When the great mother-flower dissolves in fragments Her o'er-expanded beautiful great heart.
1965 H. J. Habbakuk in D. V. Glass & D. E. C. Eversley vii. 157 These epidemics..cannot have been a Malthusian punishment inflicted on an overexpanded population.