This morning task of tidying was always a sad and ungrateful one to the widowed father.
If you are the Brownie, who has been tidying the kitchen lately?
She was tidying her hair, which was difficult to put in order because it was so thick and long, and looked absent-mindedly at Volodya.
Polya, who wastidying the drawing-room, did not recognise me, but Orlov knew me at once.
When nurse came into the room, she found the tidying of the drawer completed, and Carrots sitting quietly by the window.
This isn't the regular day for tidying it, but it is in a mess, because I turned all the things upside down when I was looking for our race horses' reins yesterday.
It was not every day that the thrilling excitement of a broken leg came his way; and later, he had found enormous satisfaction in dusting and tidying the house, and in spurring Horrors to amazing efforts in the kitchen.
He had neither eaten nor drunk, but after tidying his clothes and reassuring her as to his future movements, he had sallied out into the woods and had not returned since then.
For on Saturdays we generally--we meant to do it regularly, but I am afraid we sometimes forgot--had a sort of cleaning andtidying up.
It would be idle to pretend that she wasn't very much perturbed,--she was; and the brush with which she wastidying her pretty grey hair shook in her hand.
After he had been laid at rest, and she was back, busy with tidying her neglected shack, she fell to crying so that the children were scared.
The baby was sleeping by this time, and the woman began tidying the cabin, and when the fire was burning brightly, she put some coffee on.
When I was tidyingyour room last night--" Doda sat up.
She simply could not look at untidiness like that without tidying it.
The rest he sublimated in the act of tidying up the room.
Cornelia, who was lazilytidying up the rooms while Janet was doing the breakfast dishes.
The Bantu culture looks after the cleaning and tidying of the village streets to a remarkable degree, though by no means more clean in the houses, which, in both cultures, are quite as clean and tidy as you will find in England.
Mankind has never been sufficiently grateful to its charwomen, like these insect equivalents, who do their tidyingup at supremely inconvenient times.
The girls stood about uneasily, flushed, panting, tidyingtheir hair and their dress unconsciously, and watching him.
They were tidying themselves hurriedly, with mute, stupefied faces.
In spite of my long and slightly strenuous day, I didn't feel particularly tired, so after stowing away the sails and tidying up things generally, I sat down in the cabin and began to compose my letter to McMurtrie.
Fortified by this simple cheer, I devoted the remainder of the morning to tidying up my shed.
So far I have not even tidied up my own first impressions of the place; far less advanced a plan for tidying up the place itself.
In any case, to begin with, it is easy to be in far too much of a hurry about tidying up.
She busied herself about the room, dusting here andtidying there, and anon throwing a glance at me to see if I needed anything.
After the pretence of breakfast was gone through Janet sought relief in housework, making her bed, tidying her room.
Janet read it, and let it fall on the bedspread, where it was still lying when her friend returned and began tidying the room.
You live too much for the world," replied her mother, tidying up some half-finished watercress sandwiches with a sharp knife.
How he dreaded that terrible explicitness of women, their passion for tidying up, their love of labels!
Assign the tidying up of the home lawns or work in the home gardens for the coming week.
Three or four of the larger pupils, either boys or girls, may set the table in ten minutes, while the others are washing their hands and faces and tidying their hair.
This, to be frank about it, is a process of tidying up, which, from the nature of things, cannot be regarded as premature.
Petite maman was such an excellent manager, and Rosette was busy all the day tidying and cleaning the poor little home, which Pere Lenegre contrived to keep up for wife and daughter by working fourteen hours a day in the government saddlery.
Citizen Rondeau, who for the consideration of ten sous a day looked after Heriot's paltry creature-comforts, was busytidying up the squalid apartment which the latter occupied on the top floor of a lodging-house in the Rue Cocatrice.
Already Blakeney and Ffoulkes had with perfect presence of mind put the finishing touches to the tidying of the room--put the chairs straight, shut down the lid of the oak chest, closed all the drawers of the desk.
One evening I found him in his chambers engaged upon his Sisyphean labour of "tidying up.
One day, when she was tidying the sitting room, her brother was startled by a sudden exclamation, almost a cry, which broke from his sister's lips.
He also saw an old woman, lantern-jawed and ghostly, tidying around and she mumbling and grumbling because no one would give the child any turpentine.
And then when he did get back, what a time he had had in the scullery, tidying the refuse on the floor, groping about under a table .
Stephen was crouched on his haunches, busily tidying Emily's night-dress, pulling it about.
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