We must weed them all out, Blunt, and get our garden into as tidy a condition as possible; it is beginning to do us credit already, but that Gorton Station has remained too long in a bad state; we must harrow it up a little.
The windows glittered like diamonds, the door-knobs and plates shone with a yellow lustre, and there were no sticks, or straws, or waste paper lying about to mar the tidy look of the square.
There are no table decorations and indeed the whole room has been made as bare and as tidy as possible.
Theer'll be a tidy upstore when Miller comes to hear tell--" But Mr. Lyddon was at the door and Phoebe answered his questioning eyes.
Tis a tidy stepping-stone lead-in' to gert matters very often, as your books tell, I dare say.
It gaws a tidy long way 'pon Dartymoor, however," declared Bonus.
That's what 't is to have laid by a tidy mort o' righteousness 'gainst a evil hour!
Even his delegated murders had been accomplished with tidy and praiseworthy dispatch.
Finally in a village less hideously war-spoiled than its fellows, and in a small but tidy room of what had been the inn, he awaited the pleasure of the Commander.
They were quite sure that being tidy and careful was a gift that came with years.
And now I will take off my silk gown, and you had best smooth your hair and make yourself tidy for supper.
A FELT TIDY and Imported Silk to work it, for 20 cents.
I do wish I were neat and tidy like Ada, who never left anything in the wrong place in her life.
It is a tidy place; I do all I can to keep it neat and clean; and there's some good furniture in it, left me by my dear blessed mistress.
The room was not particularly tidy or attractive; very different to the bright sunny room at Maplestone, with its wreath of ivy round the windows and its decorations within, in which Ada delighted.
The chill loneliness of that trim room, with its drawn curtains and tidy pretence of being comfortable, exasperated him beyond bearing.
He climbed in, and stowed the newspaper bag and what packages they had already collected in a tidy pile.
Going back to the clown's tent he washed up, and made himself generally tidy and presentable for the coming interview at the Empire Hotel.
The women of San Salvador are neater in appearance, more careful in their dress, and are therefore more attractive than their sisters in Nicaragua, where, if there is any difference between the sexes, they are less tidy than the men.
The houses in Tegucigalpa show much more evidence of prosperity than those of Comayagua, and are kept more tidy and in better repair.
My sister kept house for me and she suited me fine; she was just reasonably tidy and she let me alone and spoiled me .
Thereupon Kitty Fagan proceeded to array herself in her most tidy apparel, including a pair of shoes not exactly answering to her description, and set out straight for the house of the Widow Hopkins.
Well-known bindings and styles of binding betray them at once; and unless they are abnormally tidy their pet books are sure to be somewhere in the room they use.
The sea was ridged and beating hard on the shore of the Maremma; the bay of Spezia in the distance, and little Lucca, tidy and square below, tucked into its four walls like a baby in a cot with a patchwork quilt.
It was still in the jug when I came in to tidy up, sir.
I hope we shall be very good friends, and that you will do your best to be a very tidy and industrious little girl.
I started square enough out there, and made a tidy pile.
The Cape's treated me pretty well all round, and I've come home with a tidy sum, I can tell you.
She recalled her ideal of former days: to work quietly, always have bread to eat and a tidy house to sleep in, to bring up her children, not to be beaten and to die in her bed.
He admired her courage, when he beheld her half killing herself with work, keeping her children tidy and clean, and yet finding time at night to do a little sewing.
One afternoon, for instance, Lalie having made everything tidy was playing with the children.
Well, it was one morning when they came to tidy up the lumber-room; they threw it really rather roughly on the floor, but a servant dragged it off at once downstairs, where there was daylight once more.
Then Destiny took all the pieces and made them whole again, and put them back in the press, and when everything was tidy she too left the house.
Blackie tells me you just cleaned up a tidy wad of pin money out West, and that you could give Pittsburgh's Best cards and spades on how to spend it.
With this income you can pay the interest on your mortgage, and have a tidy little sum left at the end of each quarter.
When all is dry, both walls and chimney are white-washed, and present a comfortable and tidy appearance.
When, accordingly, Sue came into the dormitory to hastily tidy herself, looking flushed and tired, she went to her cubicle in silence, none of them coming out to greet her or to make inquiry.
