17 examples of trimness in sentences

The trimness of the very bed has something petty and unmeaning about it.

Thence its chief aim grew to be a desirable trimness of speech and logical arrangement of mattergood external qualities purchased at a fearful price with the loss of all that makes poetry precious.

Sometimes he wraps his petition in neatness, but he goeth not alone; for then he makes some other quality moralise his affection, and his trimness is the grace of that grace.

As the paths go down the slope they lose their garden-like trimness among bracken and brambles.

In this retired neighborhood the road is narrow and bordered with grass, and sometimes interrupted by gates; the hedges grow in unpruned luxuriance; there is not that close-shaven neatness and trimness that characterize the ordinary English landscape.

She was still to the outer eye the slight, brown Winona of twentyperky, birdlike, with the quick trimness of a winging swallow, a little sharper featured perhaps, but superior in acuteness of desire and persistence, and with some furtive, irresponsible girlishness lurking timorously back in her bright glance.

There was a trimness about it, an assertive glamour, an air of success, that should not stamp one of the oppressed.

Yet there is no excessive air of trimness.

Tall, with an athletic trimness of limb, a good breadth of shoulder, and a fine head poised with that natural, unconscious pride of the well-bredhe kept his feet on the unsteady platform of the car with that easy grace which marks only well-conditioned muscles, and is rarely seen save in those whose lives are sanely clean.

I never saw a place so soaked with charm from end to end, its very wildness giving it a grace which trimness would have utterly destroyed.

Symmetry, elegance and beauty, (no sublimity or grandeur) trimness, snugness, privacy, cleanliness, comfort, and conveniencethe results of a happy conjunction of art and natureare all that we can aim at within a limited extent of ground.

When Milton alluded to private gardens, he spoke of their trimness.

The church, which partakes of the same trimness, is Perp.

More sanitary appliances are demanded, more expense for fundamental cleanliness is incurred, and for that tidiness and trimness of aspect inside and outside the house which adds both to the labor and to the cost of living, especially in old-style houses.

He was a tall, well-built man, with strong features, rather handsome than otherwise; but his hat hung on his occiput, gave his head a look of weakness and oddity that by nature did not belong to it, while baggy, ill-made clothes and big shoes manifested a reaction from the over-trimness of earlier years.

They were inferior in physique, lacking in trimness and even in cleanliness, and imperfectly disciplined.

He was dressed with even more than his usual care and trimness (wore patent-leather boots, my aversion from that hour, for these were the first I had ever seen), and lavender-colored pantaloons, very tightly strapped down over them; a glossy black coat and vest, and linen of unimpeachable quality and whiteness; while a chain of fine Venetian gold held his watch, or eye-glass, or both, in suspension from his neck.

17 examples of  trimness  in sentences