"Tidily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one pleasant summer morning, twenty or more servant girls were seated,—some of them modest looking and tidily dressed, others ...
— Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends • Fanny Fern
... curiosity with an elaborate description of the sacred details of a lady's sleeping apartment. You're not a fairy, you know, and I don't see that it can possibly matter to you whether fair Bertha's dainty little bottines were tidily placed on a chair by her bedside, or thrown carelessly, as they had been taken off, upon the hearth-rug, where her favorite spaniel reposed, warming his nose in his sleep before the last smouldering embers of the decaying fire; or whether her crinoline—but if she did wear a crinoline, what can ...
— In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II - Christmas Tales from 'Round the World • Various
... new home! It was for this that she had exchanged the virginal integrity of her life at Mrs. McKee's—for this wind-swept little house, tidily ugly, infinitely lonely. There were two crayon enlargements over the mantel. One was Schwitter, evidently. The other was the paper-doll wife. K. wondered what curious instinct of self-abnegation had caused Tillie to leave the wife ...
— K • Mary Roberts Rinehart |
