This is a blessed change from dirt and poverty to tidiness and comfort.
As we drove through the line of dung-heaps and liquid manure rising above what looked like barns, I was ill-prepared for the comfort and tidiness prevailing within.
The poorer inhabitants, too, are very un-French in appearance, wanting that personal tidiness characteristic of their country people in general.
Tidiness and tidy habits are great helps to economy of time and money, and are therefore highly to be recommended for Angelina’s consideration.
With the love for tidiness and kemptness that was a part of him he would smooth out its creases, then sit down on his veranda to read it.
One of the doctors went so far as to congratulate Mr. Dramm upon the tidiness of his handicraft.
But order and tidiness were not indispensable to happiness there and then, and the sum of human enjoyment was large on those old plantations, in spite of shiftlessness and slavery.
In fact, the more shiftless, lazy negroes there were, the less order and tidiness prevailed.
But the impression above all others that the room gave was of perfect purity and sweetness and health; and this was due to the beautiful tidiness and cleanliness everywhere apparent.
In fact, I believe there is nothing so disenchanting, so contrary to ideal young womanhood as a lack of neatness and tidiness in person and dress.
I began to form my own opinion of the tidiness now, but said nothing.
For my part, I can do twice the amount of work when I see tidinessand comfort around me.
I put it back in the same place -- for the sake oftidiness -- sat up, and looked down at my feet.
My host stopped and gave me a lecture on the wonderful order and tidiness they had succeeded in establishing among them.
Bedroom tea-parties were indulgences only given to winners of three weeks' dormitory records, so the less fortunate occupants of the Brown and Rose rooms were really profiting by the tidiness of their hostesses.
We've won the record for tidiness three weeks running, so we're entitled to a special indulgence.
Rum idea this is, that tidiness is a timid, quiet sort of thing; why, tidiness is a toil for giants.
He enjoyed litter and hated the devastating tidiness of housemaids.
What licks me," said I, "is the difference between this and the old-maidish tidiness of his other papers.
He boasted of her tidiness and of the way she had picked up her English and learned to read and spell, with little Lucy for her teacher.
Within was order and quiet, the fresh-down bed, the tidiness of his ordered garments.
The food was rather good, certainly plentiful; and even his squeamish morning appetite could find no fault with the self-respecting tidiness of the place.
There was a look of tidiness about the collection which was very characteristic of the man.
It is thoroughly in character with the exquisite cleanliness and tidiness of the houses at Lubeck.
If so, the tidiness of the sight might have disappointed orderly, old-fashioned folk.
He had hardly ever been here, at Paul's; and he was now struck by the exquisite tidiness of the rooms.
That tidiness of yours is a mania; that way of looking upon the world as a dustbin is a disease.
In such a place the sea had something of the monotony of a blue-green dado: for the chambers themselves were ruled throughout by a terrible tidiness not unlike the terrible tidiness of the sea.
It is not the cleanliness and tidiness of healthy life.
The cleanliness and tidiness of a prison is different from that of any household.
Tidiness is most important in a small garden=, especially in the winter time; plants may be allowed to get rampant in summer, but in the cold weather, this wildness tends to make it look miserable.
We were also invited to look at Bulwantrao's gardens, and though the tidiness which distinguishes a cared-for English garden was missing, they were highly cultivated and contained a varied assortment.
Even his inveterate want of tidinessindicates a careless mind.
Mrs. McCormick had "cleared it up," so that there was at least a surface tidiness and cheerfulness.
Besides, the tidiness is only surface, and doesn't worry me much.
I couldn't have stood this infernal tidiness a day longer," continued Bertram gaily, his momentary depression lifted at the prospect of freedom.
Here we learn about personaltidiness or the reverse, foppery, dandyism, gluttony, asceticism, etc.
As a very young child he resisted his mother's efforts to train him into tidiness or restraint.
But the point is that tidiness should not overcome us to the hurt of others, and consequently our own.
Tidiness is a virtue, indeed, but when carried to an extreme it becomes actually a disagreeable quality.
Separated from home and all familiar faces, I had a miserable heart-ache, even in the reception-room, but the sight of the awful tidiness of the dormitory chilled me to the very soul.
I think I could enumerate a few, but for the moment the vicious side of tidiness is so strongly borne in upon me that I need go no further afield.
Ultra-tidiness would banish them, and some of us would willingly be banished with them from the realms so ruled.
Here tidiness is not absent, but its rigours are avoided.
