Use neatly in a sentence
Sentences ending with neatly
- If you soak yourself in drink and fail in your blow, and I am not ready with the poisoned stiletto the thing won't come off neatly. [10]
- It's because of your concern for the welfare of your workers in the mills that I ventured to come and talk to you of how most of them live when they're at home," replied Siddons, as Janet thought, rather neatly. [9]
- He did that very neatly. [5]
- He likewise disposes of the 'maternity' question very neatly. [14]
- Still, a great many people like to watch the process,--he does it so neatly! [6]
- The vicomte told his tale very neatly. [2]
More example sentences with the word neatly in them
- Instead of neatly written labels, living lips told us their names. [10]
- Behold the clay which conducted you hither, with the heart neatly but painfully extracted. [9]
- The weaver-bird (Ploceus), when confined in a cage, amuses itself by neatly weaving blades of grass between the wires of its cage. [1]
- Soon the travellers were seated about the neatly laid table in their own house and Frau Schimmel had her reward in seeing Melchior enjoy the home-made dishes. [10]
- Fifteen of us were of the great city families, and this day, being the first day of the school-term, we were all neatly clad in fine woollen stuffs of Florence or of Flanders make, and colored knitted hose. [10]
- The large room was full of light, and through the half-dozen windows burst upon her the enchanting scene of the Bay, Henderson sat at his table, which was covered with neatly arranged legal documents, but bowed over it, his head resting upon his arms. [4]
- Janet opened the wardrobe, looked at the new blue suit hanging so neatly on its wire holder, hesitated, and closed the door again. [9]
- Her assistant hastily turned with a fork the little cakes, browning rapidly in the hollows of the iron, and when baked, laid them neatly on small plates. [10]
- End to end they lay, and so they just bridged the street neatly, from gutter to gutter. [5]
- The great fire there was cold, and the pots and pans hung neatly on their hooks, untouched that day. [9]
- So I copied them neatly, and gave them to Billy, the dwarf, the prince's factotum. [10]
- The houses along the road were not for the most part neatly kept; the garden fences were poorly built of laths or long slats, and very rarely of trim aspect. [6]
- She was arranging the cards neatly on the table. [9]
- He did not tear it with the hot impatience of some lovers, but cut it open neatly, slowly, one would say sadly. [6]
- No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. [5]
- The drawing-room was shrouded, and the library; the books wrapped neatly in paper; a smell of camphor pervaded the place; the cheerful schoolroom was dismantled; trunks and travelling bags appeared. [9]
- At the top she paused again, and for a short space stood alert, her glance resting on the little table in the corner, on top of which a few thumbed law books lay neatly piled. [9]
- Did she not say that my jerkin fitted neatly when I did act as butler to her adorable Majesty three months syne? [11]
- In Mr. Crewe's right-hand pocket, neatly typewritten, is his speech of acceptance. [9]
- Everything was in perfect order; letters and papers filed and labeled, and neatly arranged in drawers and pigeonholes. [4]
- As I started out of the door to find Benjy, who had been waiting for more than an hour, Mademoiselle gave me a neatly folded note. [9]
- Before the middle of the afternoon she decided against ratchets altogether, and confined herself to knobs, neatly set in the door-trim. [8]
- The steps were newly scrubbed, the woodwork neatly painted. [9]
- That was very neatly said, but it doesn't mean anything. [5]
- Our game was neatly played, and successfully.--None expected us, of course. [5]
- Instead of a neatly glued floor, swept by the bees with the fanning of their wings, there is a floor littered with bits of wax, excrement, dying bees scarcely moving their legs, and dead ones that have not been cleared away. [2]
- I like a man who shaves (next to one who does n't shave) to satisfy his own conscience, and not for display, and who dresses as neatly at home as he does anywhere. [4]
- The death of Lord Clarendon would have covered up the coincidence between the rejection of the San Domingo treaty and Mr. Motley's dismissal very neatly, but for the inexorable facts about its date, as revealed by the London "Times. [6]
- Adrian rushed with long leaps to his little attic room, dressed himself neatly, and entered the presence of his family before the master of the house had asked the blessing. [10]
- He hit the landing on the other side neatly, for this was a familiar bit of work to him. [5]
- You are suddenly informed that your house is on fire, and have to scramble out of it, without stopping to tie your neck-cloth neatly or to put a flower in your buttonhole. [6]
- His hat was in his hand; his hair was plastered down more neatly than ever, and his coat was a faultless and sober creation of a Franklin Avenue tailor. [9]
- Mary took him in hand, and when she was done with him he was a man and a brother, without distinction of color, and his saturated hair was neatly brushed, and its short curls wrought into a dainty and symmetrical general effect. [5]
- For I was in full possession of my faculties, and never copied more neatly and legibly any manuscript than I did the one that night. [4]
- He was clothed in a rich jacket of blue, and a pair of sandal-like shoes was placed neatly in front of the bamboo mat. [11]
- To transfer her hold from one limb to another, and work downward, keeping her skirts neatly gathered about her feet, was an achievement that the spectators could appreciate; the presence of spectators made it much more difficult. [4]
- The widow met him with a welcome neatly marked by resentment; she meant him to feel that his not coming sooner had been noticed. [8]
- Nell immediately applied herself with great assiduity to the decoration and preparation of the room, and had the satisfaction of completing her task, and dressing herself neatly, before the beloved of the Royal Family came down to breakfast. [12]
- He could not help laughing, as he thought how neatly he had knocked the young butcher off his pins. [6]
- Berg and Boris, having rested after yesterday's march, were sitting, clean and neatly dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, playing chess. [2]
- His gloomy, haggard face and disordered attire made two neatly dressed young shoemaker's apprentices, on their way to their work, nudge each other and look keenly at him. [10]
- They all talk English and they were all very neatly but very plainly dressed. [5]
- It is my desire to leave these Amended Obituaries neatly bound behind me as a perennial consolation and entertainment to my family, and as an heirloom which shall have a mournful but definite commercial value for my remote posterity. [5]
- Are you to depend for excitement upon the chances of having the hair neatly cut from your head by red fiends? [9]
- Just then a dainty little woman, neatly dressed for the evening promenade, with the mantilla on her curls, a pomegranate blossom in her hair, and another on her bosom, came out of the Alcazar. [10]
- And the poltroon compelled the brave woman to witness the execution, with the added indignity of a rope round her neck,--or as De Charlevoix much more neatly expresses it, "obligea sa prisonniere d'assister a l'execution, la corde au cou. [4]
- This was accompanied by a patronizing reference to the pretty school-ma'am, who was complimented upon her good-fortune in phrases so neatly turned as to give Henderson the greatest offense, and leave him no remedy, since nothing could have better suited the journal than further notoriety. [4]
- The walls were built of monstrous masses of smoothed granite, neatly joined together. [5]
- These articles had been packed by her hands; and in one corner, among the underclothes on which she had neatly sewed my initials, lay the new Bible she had bought. [9]
- An oracular scientist at the club the other night put it rather neatly when he said that a society that exists mainly to pay its debts gets stupid. [4]
- He grew livid as he perceived how neatly he had been snared in his own trap. [9]
- All were well and neatly dressed; many of them nattily, a few of them very stylishly. [5]
- About a mile and a half from Shechem we halted at the base of Mount Ebal before a little square area, inclosed by a high stone wall, neatly whitewashed. [5]
- Shortly after passing an avenue neatly labelled "Trade's Drive" the road wound upwards through a ravine the sides of which were covered with a dense shrubbery which had the air of having always been there, and yet somehow looked expensive. [9]
- Along this street, also, the more nicely kept and neatly painted dwellings were chiefly congregated. [6]
- There was likewise a shelf devoted to road building, several to knotty-looking pamphlets, and half a wall of neatly labelled pigeonholes. [9]
- Each one filled a large book, which was to be neatly written. [10]
- They will counterfeit a fly, or a high-toned bug, or the ruined Coliseum, within the cramped circle of a breastpin, and do it so deftly and so neatly that any man might think a master painted it. [5]
- Shall I be a convict in a felt hat and a grey suit, trotting about a dockyard with my number neatly embroidered on my uniform, and the order of the garter on my leg, restrained from chafing my ankle by a twisted belcher handkerchief? [12]
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