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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornwall Coast] Reference

A jerry-builder whose houses have been condemned writes anonymously and becomes the.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Things Considered] Reference

I have not made speculative purchases of land, I am not booming a generous jerry-builder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without Prejudice] Reference

He had begun life as a small jerry-builder at Golder's Green, and had ended it a millionaire and a knight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo] Reference

The jerry-builder, who just throws his houses together, makes atonement for the flimsy structure by putting in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Friend on the Road and Other Studies in the Gospels] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [London's Underworld] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Painting] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman Who Did] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Passage] Reference

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.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Evesham] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Admirable Tinker Child of the World] Reference

A jerry-builder and its constitution had no stamina whatever.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way of All Flesh] Reference

To build thus is to mix sentiment with the mortar, and the house thus created is a place to which affections and memories cling; whereas the mere tenancy of a cube of rotten bricks, thrown together by the jerry-builder ” of which we know no more than the amount of rent which is charged for it ” is incapable of nourishing any sentiment, and is, in any case, not a home but a lodging.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quest of the Simple Life]

Hurry up the architect and the jerry-builder! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man] Reference