502 examples of tidier in sentences

The breakfast things washed up, the kitchen should be tidied, so that it may be neat when her mistress comes in to give the orders for the day: after receiving these orders, the servant should go upstairs again, with a jug of boiling water, the slop-pail, and two cloths.

"You'd better come to Grandma Watterby's and get tidied up, Bob.

Children are tidier and more careful in a dainty, well-kept room.

Ellen the cook was tidier, Joanna the second maid more amiable.

However, as the shop had been tidied and the fire laid, he surmised that Mrs. Owen had finished her work earlier than usual, and thought no more about it.

"I might have tidied my hair," she thought.

Moreover, she was a generous creature, and did not in the least mind spending a few dollars here and there to make things tidier and more comfortable.

" Mr. Wilks bent down and, taking up a small brush, carefully tidied up the hearth.

Soon it all was still, then the door was gently opened and little Philip tiptoed to his mother's bed and whispered, 'Mama, I have straightened the furniture and tidied up the room; is your headache better?'

Nothing in her face or manner betrayed it, nor in her pleasant, easy talk while she tidied my things and scolded my slovenly packing, as her habit was, questioning me about the servants at the flat.

Patients must be fed and washed, beds must be made and the wards swept and tidied, wounds must be dressed and splints adjusted.

" When the boys had been started off to Seal Cove with a boatload of goods, and Katherine had tidied away the litter in the store, she went into the stockroom at the back to spread out the furs in readiness for the coming of Mr. Selincourt.

He has tidied up a vacant room in the brewery adjoining the house where he lives with his afflicted children.

Instead she went all over the house and tidied everything up and placed pretty white curtains at the windows.

Then, again, the neighbourhood of the town has a charm for a wanderer from the old country; the roads are excellent, the fields and gardens are tidied up, creepers are led up the cottage walls, suburban villas abound, everything looks more clean, more soigné, more snug, more filled and settled than the neighbourhood of any other city I visited in America, and thus forces back upon the mind associations and reflections of dear old home.

I reckon your young man here thinks I ought to discharge her and get one that's tidier.

" Then I suggested that the children should be kept tidier, for which I was insulted by their father.

The pillows were put at feyther's back, the blankets over his knee, his pipe and screw of 'baccy being placed handy on the window-sill; then Tom and Bob withdrew to assume their Sunday suits in preparation for the day, while Mrs. Wainwright and her daughters made the bed and tidied the room.

She must have her hair brushed and her bed "tidied," and, when Isabel thought she had concluded everything, Mrs. Plausaby would insist that all should be undone again and fixed m some other way.

I don't suppose that room 'ad ever been tidied up so thoroughly since the Prettys 'ad lived there, but Dicky Weed couldn't see anything o' the watch, and wot made 'im more angry than anything else was Mrs. Pretty setting down in a chair with 'er 'ands folded in her lap and pointing out places that he 'adn't done.

After tea Mrs. Robinson took Christina into the parlour while Jeannie tidied up.

So Jeannie threw off her apron, tidied her hair with a couple of touches, and flew as though a life depended on her speed.

The smallest Yankee farmer has a tidier estate, a tidier house, and a tidier wife than this member of the proud southern chivalry, who, however, inasmuch as he has slaves, is undoubtedly a much greater personage in his own estimation than those capital fellows W and B, who walk in glory and in joy behind their ploughs upon your mountain sides.

The smallest Yankee farmer has a tidier estate, a tidier house, and a tidier wife than this member of the proud southern chivalry, who, however, inasmuch as he has slaves, is undoubtedly a much greater personage in his own estimation than those capital fellows W and B, who walk in glory and in joy behind their ploughs upon your mountain sides.

The smallest Yankee farmer has a tidier estate, a tidier house, and a tidier wife than this member of the proud southern chivalry, who, however, inasmuch as he has slaves, is undoubtedly a much greater personage in his own estimation than those capital fellows W and B, who walk in glory and in joy behind their ploughs upon your mountain sides.

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