The tide was setting in, and as he gradually drifted towards the land, he saw the storied rocks, and even perceived Miss IDA, sitting upon a shady prominence, crocheting a tidy.

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The children are trained to tidy ways and to independence.

The room, with its low ceilings, dark rafters, and sanded floor, was fairly tidy, and, in the light and shade of the shifting fire, picturesque and strange.

She said of course it was very nice curling like that, but it was a pity I did not wear a net over it all to keep it more tidy.

They are as tidy as can be, not a hair escapes from their nets!

You remember the houseenormous, tidy, hideous, uncomfortable.

And she is so tidy.

When I thought of the clean, tidy, comfortable surroundings in which I had been reared, a wave of homesickness swept over me that made me feel faint.

Here in this town things are, for the moment, tidy and ordered, as if seven Germans with seven mops had swept it for half a year.

That blindness had enabled Hervey to reap tidy sums out of his management of the ranch, and now that the coming of the sharp-eyed girl had cut off his sources of revenue he was ready to fight hard to put himself back in the saddle as unquestioned master of the Valley of the Eagles.

He found rooms tidy, exquisite in their cleanliness and good taste of arrangement; and then other rooms slovenly and filthy.

He may have been unclean; morally, he's not very tidy now; but he never can have been what the French call a viveur.

As I said in the beginning, he is still our office-boy and messenger, although a smart young mulatto is hired to come betimes, make things tidy, and leave before the old man gets down, so his feelings mayn't be hurt.

It was a surprise to him one afternoon to find that his wife had so far unbent as to tidy up the parlour.

I chose a small inn, which had an air of neatness about it, and on going in, the tidy landlady's "be you welcome," as she brought a pair of slippers for my swollen feet, made me feel quite at home.

We have got a tidy lot at present amongst us, and what is ours is yourn.

" I found my little sister Aurora, and we climbed through the window into my bedroom to get tidy.

The tidy, spruce, and discreet poetry of the eighteenth century was passing into its final and most pronounced stage.

"We were about to tidy up a captured trench.

She was a plump, trim, tidy little woman, with smooth, dark hair, dark eyes, and a merry little mouth.

MURTAGH COSGAR Make the place tidy for him to come into.

She was neat and tidy, and ready to serve me at any time, night or day.

The tidy breezes with their brooms Sweep vale, and hill, and tree!

Would it not be wiser to discard the crinoline altogether till the day's work is done, and the servants make themselves tidy for their tea and their evening recreation.