Some sweep the paths scrupulously neat, and then stand to see the next breath strew them with new trophies.

The man reports to his mistress, who descends to inspect the apartments, and pronounces them exceedingly neat and pleasant and exactly what are wanted.

He is remarkably neat in his person, wisping himself all over with hay for hours at a time.

A figure more in contrast to the exquisitely neat vessel it would be hard to imagine.

All this afternoon I have spent listening to Sir John, who has shown me his father's manuscript, his aunt's, beautifully neat, and he told me about his Cape observations.

The area of that was perfectly beautiful, every unsightly object having been removed, while the fences and the tillage were faultlessly neat and regular.

He bestirred himself in dusting his black clothes, washing his hands and face, and other acts characteristic of his studiously neat habits, and for a moment forgot his annoyance.

His brick-red hair was as unkempt as if it had never known a comb, yet the attire of the great detective was as fastidiously neat as if he had dressed for an important social function.

They are plain neat wooden houses, in capaciousness more like villas than cottages.

They were all arrayed in their very best clothes, even Master Jonathan having powdered his hair, and tied it in an uncommonly neat queue, while his buckled shoes, stockings and small clothes, though of somewhat ancient fashion, were of fine quality.

But he said we had a mighty neat, comfortable craft, and that it looked as if it might have slid off some street or other into the water.

"Surely you are not of sound mind!" He looked about him at the room, for the first time in his memory immaculately neat.

Inexpressibly neat, smiling, philosophic, helpful, she has within her a contentious and formidable tiger which two contingencies, and two only, will arouse.

They have substituted economical and orderly conceptions for the first sensible tangle; and whether these were morally elevated or only intellectually neat they were at any rate always aesthetically pure and definite, and aimed at ascribing to the world something clean and intellectual in the way of inner structure.

Frankly I do not knowtoo neat an allegory to be true, perhapsand yet there was something of this in it.

Then he escorted them up the side to the deck, which was marvelously neat and attractive.

However, in this house the front room was merely neat.

St. Luke's has a serene, minutely-neat exterior; is proportionate, evenly balanced, and devoid of that tortuous masonry which some architects delight to honour.

I wandered in fancy all over the housethe attics, my aunt's bedroom so miraculously neat, and mine so unkempt, and the dark places in the corridors where clocks ticked.

She works good (well) and neat (neatly).

His coat was of black, of a noticeably neat appearance, and I observed, as a further evidence of fastidiousness rare upon the Road, that he was saving his trousers by kneeling on a bit of carpet.

I can see that figure nowpallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn!

Continuing our course, numberless neat little villages and lovely villas appear from time to time; but when fairly on the Lake of The Thousand Isles, the scenery is altogether charming, and some new beauty is constantly bursting into view.

It is not large; we don't suppose it will accommodate more than about 250; but it is peculiarly neat and pleasing.

Anon a figure enters, quaintly neat, All pride and business, bustle and conceit; With looks unalter'd by these scenes of woe, With speed that, ent'ring, speaks his haste to go.