"Untidy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... him. Hampton, his hair ruffled, Judith's table littered with market reports, and many sheets of paper covered with untidy figures, ...
— Judith of Blue Lake Ranch • Jackson Gregory
... threatening Denoisel playfully with a pair of scissors. "Now if you move! Denoisel's head always looks untidy—his hair is badly cut—he always has a great, ugly lock that falls over his forehead. It makes people squint when they look at him. I want to cut that lock. There—he's afraid. Why, I cut hair very well—you ask papa," and forthwith she gave ...
— Rene Mauperin • Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
... temper, impatient, flippant, inaccurate, tending to guess and to jump at conclusions, to generalize hastily, etc. It was observed that many unskilful hands came out of the schools, clumsy ringers, wanting in neatness, untidy in work, inept in measuring and weighing, incapable of handling things intelligently. There had come an awakening from the dreams of 1870, when we felt so certain that all England was to be made good and happy through ...
— The Education of Catholic Girls • Janet Erskine Stuart
... to see the world, but not in such a small, untidy, smelly place as this. We would go in a yacht all clean and comfortable; Charlie says that is the proper way," answered Rose, surveying the close quarters with ...
— Eight Cousins • Louisa M. Alcott
... a huge man with a rather well-chiseled face, considering his thickness of limb, and his blond hair fell in an untidy shower about his prominent and throbbing temples. Fred felt him to be a man without any inherited social graces, yet he contrived to appear at ease. Was it because he was disposed to let the women chatter? ...
— Broken to the Plow • Charles Caldwell Dobie
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