The following is a nice neat facsimile specimen of the writing of a young taleb and Ghadamsee Marabout, one of the best I have seen in The Desert.
Fred's neat beard has a trick of losing something of its trim when he proposes to assert himself, and I recognized the symptoms.
When his usuallyneat beard has not been trimmed for a day or two he looks more truculent than he really is.
Haddon came, punctual to the minute, with a neat black bag; and Mowbray soon followed.
On seeing that dear face, worn and haggard with grief, Camors forgot the neatphrases he had prepared for his entrance.
His rapid elevation was explained by his unfailing audacity, by his cool judgment and neat finesse, by his great connection and by his moral independence.
All through the service he had been paying a greater amount of attention to a neat little toque, and the back of a very shapely head, a few seats in front of him, than was altogether proper in a place of worship.
Before doing so, however, the former purchased a neat little gold watch and chain which he presented to Teresina, accompanied by a cheque equivalent to six months' salary, calculated at the rate she had been receiving.
The sound had scarcely died away before it was opened to him by a stout, matronly person, dressed in black, and wearing a cap and a neat white apron.
He did so to find himself in a neat little sitting room, unostentatiously yet comfortably furnished.
Pushing open the gate, Burrell made his way up the garden path to the neat little porch where he gave a smart rat-tat with his stick upon the door.
His taste betrayed a partiality for velvet coats; his ties were usually startling, so far as colour went; he wore his hair longer than is customary, and further adorned his face with a neat little Vandyke beard and mustache.
Victor was attired in a magnificent travelling ulster, and a neat deer-stalker's hat.
This very soon brought Godfrey alongside, and as he passed he managed to steal a glance at a very pretty face and as neat a figure as he ever remembered to have seen.
She was ever neat and particular in her dress, her feet and hands were so delicate and small as to be almost childlike.
At the last, in one of those intense moments of quiet which young people can produce as by magic, came a neat little speech whose purpose was highly praiseworthy.
The village of their quest once reached, the Ford drew up before a neat brick house built around three sides of a courtyard, with verandas on the court side.
Poverty was there, but it was veryneat and cleanly poverty.
In the garden surrounding the house were neat rows of bushes bearing cream-puffs and macaroons, some of which were still green, but others ripe and ready to eat.
There was a neat blue fence around the yard and several blue benches had been placed underneath the shady blue trees which marked the line between forest and plain.
But Amanda had a quick foot, a neat hand, a light touch, and a peculiar faculty of "turning off" work so that it simply would not last through the day.
Then in the month of January a neat document, presenting facts and figures, but no word of personal comment or communication, was addressed at first to Mr. W.
Lodged in a private house, a neat clean place—kind treatment from the old man and his daughter.
He had built a small thatched house to eke out the old one: it was a neat dwelling, with no false ornaments.
The kirk is, as at Melrose, within the walls of a conventual church; but the ruin is much less beautiful, and the church a very neat one.
The inn neat and comfortable—exceedingly clean: I could hardly believe we were still in Scotland.
We were, however, well received, and sate down in a neat parlour with a good fire.
Dark when we reached Peebles; found a comfortable old-fashioned public-house, had a neat parlour, and drank tea.
The village of Kenmore, with its neat church and cleanly houses, stands on a gentle eminence at the end of the water.
He conducted us to the church, which under his directions has been lately repaired, and is a very neat place within.
The house was cleanly and neatin the inside, the stairs of stone, scoured white, the kitchen on the right side of the passage, the parlour on the left.
And soon thereafter arose the benign genius of homoeopathy, with healing in its neatlittle white-paper wings.
He keeps it neat as a pin, but has his fun out of it all the same.
They looked clean and neat and wonderfully solemn as they landed at the station.
It was clean andneat appearing, being made of boards, and was pleasant in warm weather, but it was cold in winter, so I put up an extra inside wall which I covered with building paper.
Moreover, it is difficult to make a neat and satisfactory fireplace without a hammer for dressing the stones, and a tool of this kind will weigh as much as a sheet iron stove, therefore it is almost as difficult to take into the woods.
She had, besides, inherited dainty tastes and neat ways from her mother, so it was not such a task for her to be orderly as it was for some others.
Nothing ever seen like it before, and it only costs 30 cents, post paid, inclosed in a neat box for protection.
I like to go there; the little house is so cunning, and everything as neat as wax, and old-fashioned.
Many of the well-cared-for trees in the gardens and public places of Japan pass the winter in neat wrappings of straw.
Shiny though the tiles may be, one cannot but admire the neat way in which they interlock.
The matter-of-fact, fore-sighted, neat way in which she got to work was admirable.
Yet, convinced by the arguments for adjustment, the peasant agreed to the proposed rearrangement, let his old tracts go and accepted in exchange neat oblongs out of the common stock.
They have invented a very neat apparatus to hold the paper when cut into sizes so that it may be inserted in the common dry-plate holder.
When placed in its neat leather case, with shoulder-straps for carrying, it is the smallest and lightest practical tripod that has yet been offered to the public.
Two forms of chairs for babies are very popular with the average photographer, being neat in design and finely finished, greatly adding to the effect of a good photograph of a pretty baby.
All this apparatus is, with the exception of the tripod, enclosed in a neat carrying case, with a telescopic cover, and is carried with a hand-strap.
The whole establishment was scrupulously neat and clean, and afforded an agreeable contrast to the surrounding buildings.
Pretty girls too, some of them, with their black massed hair and olive skins, and all so neat and happy.
From this height, crowned on its extreme summit by a neat and commodious farm-house, the far reaching sands, forming the points above named, are distinctly visible.
The proprietors of this neat little place were a father and son, to the latter of whom was consigned, for reasons which will appear presently, the sole management of the farm.
I'll need some one to handle the cash register, and why can't I have Rose for that neat little piece of work?
It was finally Miss Rathbone who relieved the situation by pulling Tommy over to a consenting frame of mind in consideration of the neat little plumlet she extracted from it for herself by making me a travelling dress in three days.
