There were the same towels and tidiesthat had been there two months before, or what seemed the same.
Scarfs of one sort or another were looped across the corners of the pictures, tidies innumerable adorned the chair-backs and table-tops.
Perhaps; but it seemed to her that was the very thing to which all destitute people with pretensions to gentility fled as a matter of course, and that the market for tidies and "splashers" and pine-pillows was decidedly overstocked.
Why don't you go in the house and count the tidies or set the clock, and not stand out here in the atmosphere?
There were about six dozen willow rocking-chairs, with pink tidies tied on to them, arranged against the walls.
I never saw so many tidies in my life--I shall never draw a happy breath among them.
When she returned to the flat, she threw her things on the floor, pushed the parlor furniture awry, turned the framed photographs to the wall, and hid the worsted tidies under the sofa.
Then she resumed: "Some tidies would look real handsome on some of them great bare chairs over to your house; there ain't one there so far as I know.
On each of her chairs was a tidy, and the tidies were all alike; in the corners of the room were lambrequins, all worked after the same pattern in red worsted and beads.
The room was almost dark, but the light that managed to creep in showed a gloomy black mantelpiece, with vases of immortelles, and somber walnut chairs with crocheted tidies that made little white patches here and there in the dusk.
She was particularly entertained by the chest of drawers in the living room, and by Lewisham's witticisms at the toilet tidies and the oleographs.
One of the precious red wool tidies slipped to the floor, and lay there unnoticed.
Aunt Rebecca thought Jane Lavinia's artistic labours a flat waste of time, which would have been much better put into rugs and crochet tidies and afghans.
There was spring in the world and spring in Jane Lavinia's heart; but a chill came with the thought of Aunt Rebecca, who considered tidies and afghans nicer than her pictures.
All the other girls in Chestercote made rugs and tidies and afghans.
The last time she came up she carried a bundle of the gaytidies that used to hang over the chair backs.
He liked the old house with its atrocious horsehair sofa and chair tidies and the Rogers group in the front bay window.
If the parlour furniture with its tidies and a Rogers group in the front window sometimes got on her nerves she forced herself to laugh over it and say: "It's mother's house, and all she has.
Then at the doors and windows Little Sweep hung up the curtains she had made, and pinned the tidies to the backs of the chairs.
These Little Sweep would fashion into curtains and tidies for the little cottage of their dreams.
By that time you are flustered, forget the Andersonian grace, and utter some emphatic words about tidies and tidy matters in general, and sit down with a real Castletonian kick.
All the chairs, and the sofa, have crocheted tidieson the backs, arms and seat, each separate, and enough to madden a Talmage convert.
She gets him something good to eat, and tidies up the children.
After lunch the maid clears and washes up and tidies the kitchen.
Jane's gone back to her tidies and aprons and skimping on everything.
Jane used to buy ingrain carpets and cheap chairs and cover them with mats and tidies to save them.
I've covered everything with mats andtidies and spreads.
So far she had done nothing but crochet two or three million tidies for the tea-room chairs, "to make them look homey.
The tidies are not hard, and I could do the shams, but those curtains are not to be thought of.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tidies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
