When the young people go to kirk or market, few appear more 'trig or clean;' and a stranger would hardly be persuaded that some of them lived in such miserable hovels.
Whether he uses the quiet ponds and smooth streams also for a looking-glass to comb his hair and arrange his gay coat by, we cannot be sure, but he always looks as trig as if he had some such aid.
Trig had just secured a "situation," and the caller was asking about it.
They despatched a lay brother called Trig to Spalding, with Turketyl's grant under his charge.
We saw the trig country lasses bleaching their snow-white linen on the grass by the waterside, and they too were lilting their favourite songs, Logan Water, the Flowers of the Forest, and the Broom of the Cowdenknowes.
She smiled at the thought, in spite of a brooding, indefinable trouble that had burdened her sleep, when, with wide eyes, she quickly sensed the lavishness of the room and saw the invincibly trig Heloise moving about.
Leverett Whyland was revealed in a trig cart drawn by a handsome cob.
She wore a very trig and jaunty tailor-made suit and a stunning little garnet-velvet toque.
Mistress Alice Trig having lost her Paris kerchief suspected Alice Byntham of having stolen it, and apparently not without good reason.
William then went round to Mistress Trig and posed as a wise man, which he may have been, skilled in magic, which he was not, and revealed to her his knowledge of her private affairs.
Beat him at that trig proposition the other day," he said.
Dad fished out an old Trig that he used when he was a boy and I have some new angles that will keep my esteemed rival stirring up his gray matter for some little time.
Trig Lane ran from Thames Street to the water's edge, near Lambeth Hill.
And a trig young person who didn't look a bit like an artist, because she was so neatly belted and so smoothly coiffed, waved a clayey thumb tip toward a bench by the fire.
The dinner, which was elaborate, was served by two trig maids.
Selma was delighted to have two instead of one, and, after beholding Mrs. Williams's trig maids, was eager to see her own arrayed in white caps and black alpaca dresses.
Here was Cowperwood bearding the lion in his den, dictating terms to the principal financial figures of the city, standing up trig and resolute, smiling in their faces and telling them in so many words to go to the devil.
Evidently a trig and hopeful widow, even if so recently bereaved.
That's just as good a wheel-trig as the outlaw proposition would be," declared Tommy, his face clearing.
It will take a better man than you to trig talk that I'm makin'," he retorted.
Twenty-one years ago everything was trim and trig and bright along the 'coast,' just as it had been in 1827, as described by those tourists.
Bless 'em both, they're picters, they two, as taut and trig as you please.
I'll have to ask you to trig that kind of talk, Mr. Flagg.
They're going to trig my drive at the Skulltree dam unless we are through ahead of 'em.
I care a great deal for the little boat; and I gave him a better knife before I came away, to remember me by; but I am afraid its shininess and trig shape may have seemed a trifle unmanly to him.
There was a little bright pink dress that thetrig young French woman opposite used to hang out to dry; and somehow poor old Polly used always to be brightened and cheered by the sight of it.
The boy returned that instant, and was then going to take off the trigfrom the valve.
Captain Dick holloed out, 'Why don't you trig down the clack?
