He liked the air and well-kept appearance of the woman; he appreciated the neatness of the house at her back and gauged at its proper value the interest she displayed in the expected arrival of one whom he hoped would delay that arrival long enough for him to get in the word which by this time dropped almost unconsciously from his lips.

He had in his pocket an ingenious little invention which he had exhibited all along the road as an indispensable article in every well-kept house.

The old lady's hands were neatly gloved, and her feet were shod with substantial, well-kept laced shoes.

She never allowed a schoolmate to visit him, even in the well-kept yard.

It was a road of trim semi-detached villas, each with a well-kept front garden and neatly- curtained windows.

She told much more about her interview: the neat home, the bees in the orchard, the well-kept garden.

She lives about two miles from my farm in a small white house set in the midst of a modest, neat garden with well-kept apple trees in the orchard behind it.

His hard blue eyes blazed as he thought of them, and the mouth hidden by his well-kept beard was set with anger.

On one side of the narrow river a collection of ramshackle mud huts, neglected gardens, foul smells, beggars, and dogsPersia; on the other, a score of neat stone houses, well-kept roads and paths, flower-gardens, orchards, a pretty church, and white fort surrounded by the inevitable black-and-white sentry-boxes, guarded by a company of white-capped CossacksRussia.

Although the Toy Spaniels are unquestionably true aristocrats by nature, birth, and breeding, and are most at home in a drawing-room or on a well-kept lawn, they are by no means deficient in sporting proclivities, and, in spite of their short noses, their scent is very keen.

(Seated quite composedly and fondling her well-kept hands, she awaits the moment of arrival.

But in those years, "long enough ago," to which I refer,somewhere between Lea and Blackheath, stood in the midst of well-kept grounds a goodly mansion, which held this pleasant room.

From the stony paths of peace there to the well-kept roads of war!

The hills sloped gently up on either side, covered with rich corn-fields and well-kept orchards.

He had such nice teeth and such well-kept hands!

The entrance was attractive with well-kept grass and pretty flowers.

We went by the well-kept grape-vines, heavy with the promise of an abundant harvest, through a narrow field of yellowing corn, and then picked our way through the watermelon-vines to the spot where the monarch of the patch had lain the day before, in all the glory of its coat of variegated green.

Wealth rolling by upon the waggon, wealth in the well-kept garden, in the smart lawn, in the roses, the bright flowers, the substantial well-furnished house, the luxurious carpet, and the china; wealth, too, all around in the vast expanse of ripening wheat.

It is perhaps, par excellence, the most wide-awake and flourishing city in the State; and, while not over a dozen years of age, exhibits, in the elegance and cost of its private dwellings, its spacious stores, its first-class and well-kept hotel, the Nicollet House, its huge factories and thundering machinerydriven by that more than Titanic power of the great and wondrous Falls,evidence of a solid prosperity.

Basket does well if it can bring to the reaper the food of well-kept dogs.

I particularly noticed one of his fields of wheat, comprising 2,000 acres, as level and clean as a well-kept lady's flower garden in England.

You get here what you do not get in the citywell-paved or asphalted roads, planted with trees, and trim side-walks, studded with houses of individuality, not boorishly fenced off from each other, but standing each on its plot of well-kept turf running down to the pavement.

Rice, barley, pearl wheat, and other whole grains can be satisfactorily used in soups in which a whole grain is required; oatmeal, rolled oats, corn meal, grits, etc., with the addition of a little milk and cream, may be made into delicious gruels; they may also be used advantageously in the preparation of vegetable soups, many of which are even improved by the addition of a few spoonfuls of well-kept cooked oatmeal or rolled oats.

They were passing at a good speed through a varying countrynow a thicket of hazel, now great patches of furze upon open common, and anon well-kept farm-hedges, and clumps of pine, the remnants of ancient forest, when, halfway through a lane so narrow that the rector felt every yard toward the other end a gain, his horses started, threw up their heads, and looked for a moment wild as youth.

They entered its office, a spacious well-kept room, but the next moment they were almost frightened out of their shoes by the loathsome sight which met their eyes, as they found themselves in the midst of a lot of cursing, semi-sober harvesters; crippled, alcohol-marked vagrants; blind mendicants; drunkards and blackguards, in fact a choice collection of the most degraded specimens of humanity.