2274 examples of neat in sentences

The garden was scrupulously neat, and I fancied that I could detect its mistress's hand in it.

A neat little brougham drew up beside the pavement in its turn, and into this they stepped.

"A neat piece of work," said Psmith approvingly, adjusting his tie at the looking glass.

In a neat wooden frame in the senior day room at Outwood's, just above the mantlepiece, there was on view, a week later, a slip of paper.

" The child who gave these orders was a tiny, neat little figure, delicate as wax, and like a mere doll, though she was six years of age.

We were now returning from our walk, when, passing a small but pleasant and neat abode in a clean faubourg, he took a key from his pocket, opened, and entered.

One that has a rare dexteritie at lanceing Or opening of a stomack that has crudities; So neat at separation of a limbe And quartering of treason.

simple, uniform, of a piece [Fr.], homogeneous, single, pure, sheer, neat. unmixed, unmingled^, unblended, uncombined, uncompounded; elementary, undecomposed; unadulterated, unsophisticated, unalloyed, untinged^, unfortified, pur

Adj. orderly, regular; in order, in trim, in apple-pie order, in its proper place; neat, tidy, en regle [Fr.], well regulated, correct, methodical, uniform, symmetrical, shipshape, businesslike, systematic; unconfused &c (confuse) &c 61; arranged &c 60.

There is no security in buying coffee ready-ground; and we always look at the neat little packages of it in the grocers' windows with a shudder.

Pointing to a neat cottage that stood by the wayside, within a stone's throw, he told us the "wise woman" lived there.

I own a neat brick house, in a quiet street, which you will find more comfortable than this.

They are kept scrupulously cleanthe company is noted for thatand the steerage is as neat as the main saloon.

He respects matter, thou art wholly for words; he loves a loose and free style, thou art all for neat composition, strong lines, hyperboles, allegories; he desires a fine frontispiece, enticing pictures, such as Hieron.

To see a silly contemptible sloven in apparel, ragged in his coat, polite in speech, of a divine spirit, wise? another neat in clothes, spruce, full of courtesy, empty of grace, wit, talk nonsense?

For where you shall see the people civil, obedient to God and princes, judicious, peaceable and quiet, rich, fortunate, and flourish, to live in peace, in unity and concord, a country well tilled, many fair built and populous cities, ubi incolae nitent as old Cato said, the people are neat, polite and terse, ubi bene, beateque vivunt, which our politicians make the chief end of a commonwealth; and which Aristotle, Polit.

Here she went in, and finding the place convenient for her present circumstances, hired a small, but neat chamber, telling the people of the house that she was come to town in order to get a service, and till she heard of one to her liking, would be glad to do any needle-work she should be employed in.

The most unsophisticated playgoer feels the effect of neat workmanship, though he may not be able to put his satisfaction into words.

Drawing it close to him, he arranged the cards in neat piles.

They learn trigger-drill, they learn skirmishing, they are taught to make reports on the movements of their companies, they are shown neat ways of judging distances.

He lived for years in the white cottage that Wordsworth once lived in, just behind the street yondera nice, neat, lile gentleman, in a houseful of books.

The pony was grey, and Mary was grey, for she wore a neat little homespun habit made by the local tailor, and a neat little felt hat with a ptarmigan's feather.

The pony was grey, and Mary was grey, for she wore a neat little homespun habit made by the local tailor, and a neat little felt hat with a ptarmigan's feather.

The ladies were dressed well, seemed modest, and were retiring and neat in their look, having blue eyes, black hair, and appeared to understand much of the etiquette of southern behaviour.

My husband at length ventured to propose to Mrs. "Pawnee Blanc," the nearest surviving relative of the person interred, to replace the pickets with a neat wooden platform.

2274 examples of  neat  in sentences