I afterwards found that the neatness of this cabin and of the three staterooms was maintained by the Niggerat peril of his neck.

411 Neatness in Apparel 412 The New-born Infant 412 Motes in the Sun-beams 413 The Boy and the Snake 413

It is a meekly-conceived, yet substantially-built little church, with a rural placidity and neatness about it, reminding one of goodness without showiness, and use without sugar-coated detail.

The splendour of the monument, the exquisite neatness with which it is kept, will astound you, considering that we live in a period of Wordsworth worship.

The machinery struck us as not being constructed with the usual degree of neatness for which the Chinese are famous, and also appeared far too large for the small vessel for which it was intended.

Five of them leaped up from the door-sill, and some thirty-five from the edge of the trottoir, brushed that part of their wearing-apparel which always fits with great neatness on a Creole, and trooped into the shop.

Shakespeare's advice as to neatness without gaudiness is not followed.