Keep captured men in neat rows, as well-tended prisoners.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Joy Luck Club]

A damane was no better than an animal, if a well-tended one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fires of Heaven]

But as with a well-tended lawn, the results eventually pay off.    From Wordnik.com.  [News from ASTM: Working to make furniture safer] Reference

Instead he conversed with his students in a cozy, well-tended garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Setton: What Happened To The Pursuit Of Happiness?] Reference

It was time to act to save the suburbs and "well-tended neighborhoods.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Danny Schechter: Bush Vows to Help Subprime Victims, Save the Suburbs: When Is a Non-Bailout Really a Bailout, and Why It's a Joke] Reference

I saw beautiful, well-tended gardens basking in the early May sunshine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karen Smithey: Derby Day] Reference

The path was now plain before them, well-tended and bordered with stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fellowship of the Ring]

The huge hearth that dominated the living room housed a well-tended fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot And Bothered]

Two fat and well-tended pigs are worth half a dozen half-starved wretches.    From Wordnik.com.  [A First Year in Canterbury Settlement] Reference

He drove past well-tended yards and kids toting backpacks filled to the limit.    From Wordnik.com.  [One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze]

In well-tended plantings, annual yields are said to reach 20 tons per hectare.    From Wordnik.com.  [2: Vegetables and small fruits in the tropics] Reference

Its enormous mass landed feather-like on a long, low hump amid well-tended fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]

Just as a well-tended garden repels weeds and pests, human health can be cultivated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne Dunev: Secrets to Avoiding Winter Flu Blues] Reference

And brown lawns and dead vegetation are creating eyesores in well-tended neighborhoods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danny Schechter: Bush Vows to Help Subprime Victims, Save the Suburbs: When Is a Non-Bailout Really a Bailout, and Why It's a Joke] Reference

The gardener always kept well-tended pots of flowers inside the folly during the summer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irresistible]

New windows and doors and siding help homes look well-tended and spiffy from the street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Upgrading] Reference

I suppose I am now too old to be seduced by the well-tended fusion of masonry and foliage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brideshead Revisited, Revisited! Lush Southern Wedding Throws Me for Loop!] Reference

Now she can speak without shame of the well-tended, ample rubbish bin in which she resides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recessive-Compulsive Disorder:] Reference

Then he drew it, and its polished and well-tended blade glittered suddenly, cold and bright.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fellowship of the Ring]

The grounds were well-tended, the place bustling with activity but seemingly well-organized.    From Wordnik.com.  [When The Bough Breaks]

The guesthouse has a well-tended vegetable garden that actually produces the food that we eat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane's armchair tour: Learning about Afghanistan & Kabul the easy way...] Reference

We reached Newmarket in good time and came to a smooth halt in George Caspar's well-tended driveway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whip Hand]

The path curled downward through well-tended gardens that meandered into a grove of trees and shrubs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

Soon they came into well-tended fields and meadows: there were hedges and gates and dikes for drainage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fellowship of the Ring]

Pollsmoor there was a well-tended garden with a central concreted area marked out as a small tennis court.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6 - We Meet the Comrades] Reference

There were bookshelves on the walls, laden with well-tended volumes, the bindings cracked and much repaired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

The roads rising out of the valley lead to the modest, well-tended homes of Boardman, Poland and Austintown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Undecideds Think It Over] Reference

It was difficult to connect such fragrant, well-tended flowers with the whistling horror out in the darkness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference

She reached her room, with its well-tended fire, turned-down bed and impeccably laid-out dressing gown, pyjamas and slippers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tied Up in Tinsel]

He relates in the unpretending style of a chronicler how the corpulent citizens reside on the hill-tops, amid well-tended gardens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maxim Gorki] Reference

The strenuous life on the farm cannot compare in comfort with the quiet house and the freedom from anxiety of the well-tended hen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference

As we did, the visual treasures of Savannah flowed by in slow motion — townhouses, mansions, shadowed gardens, well-tended squares.    From Wordnik.com.  [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]

The three "comparable" properties used to justify that appraisal were well-tended houses situated miles away in neighboring counties.    From Wordnik.com.  [FDIC Faces Mortgage Mess] Reference

Most nations are home to the hungry and the overfed, to huts and palaces, to the ill and the well-tended, to the free and the enslaved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Linda Milazzo: Invictus Kicks Off New Campaign for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights] Reference