Why would a kid want to clean up his toys in service of "tidiness" when they're so much easier to find on the floor?. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Kim: The Planeteers Want YOU! Captain Planet Turns 20] Reference
It was not characterized by great order or tidiness. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
(Only on the bookshelf does death achieve tidiness.). From Wordnik.com. [The Long Road to the End] Reference
And the tidiness of this comfortable world is contagious. From Wordnik.com. [Meet Free-Lunch Forbes] Reference
It tells how Clean Peter brought tidiness to a little town. From Wordnik.com. [A Mother's List of Books for Children] Reference
He was a slave of habit, a stickler for scrupulous tidiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
Ms. Spitzmiller gives speeches on tidiness at Italian schools. From Wordnik.com. [Urban Scrawl: Rome's Graffiti Pits Artists Against Clean-Up Crews] Reference
Even his inveterate want of tidiness indicates a careless mind. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
His was a shabby tidiness that spoke of a Woman and little means. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
For what's your talk of tidiness and putting things "right there". From Wordnik.com. [The Bay and Padie Book Kiddie Songs] Reference
Like most thieving crews, Camon's group wasn't known for its tidiness. From Wordnik.com. [Mistborn] Reference
Both houses had a pretence of tidiness and comfort, particularly the Sheikh. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
The positively aggressive tidiness of the study made me pause and consider. From Wordnik.com. [Whip Hand]
Nothing has been more notable than Tommy's desire for cleanliness and tidiness. From Wordnik.com. [Tommy Atkins at War As Told in His Own Letters] Reference
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: In England, tidiness is almost always a virtue. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2002] Reference
She liked tidiness, and there was a small satisfaction in making the kitchen so. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Rising]
Avoid Second Guessing: You are now at the precipice of orderliness and tidiness. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Taylor: Dump, Sort, Toss and Breathe!] Reference
Yes, I can see that your commitment to tidiness so far is, you know, unexemplary. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2009] Reference
In its poorest quarter he had never seen such a lack of tidiness as the interior of. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
No rosettes in the tack room, just a lot more tidiness and the smell of saddle-soap. From Wordnik.com. [Whip Hand]
Luskey hoped that the required tidiness of boat-living will carry over to life on land. From Wordnik.com. [In Bethesda, a home built to have a net-zero carbon footprint] Reference
We had also to keep some sort of order and tidiness, as well as circumstances permitted. From Wordnik.com. [The South Pole~ Preparing for Winter] Reference
The only flowers were three oleanders in tubs, and these partook of the general tidiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Big Front Door] Reference
For my part, I can do twice the amount of work when I see tidiness and comfort around me. From Wordnik.com. [The South Pole~ Plan and Preparations] Reference
The regularity and tidiness are conspicuous, and have been noted by me with great satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
Helpful, business-like, she approached the table, a gleam spelling order and tidiness in her eye. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Gaston went, for the valet, with his innate tidiness, would never have left it lying on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
I put it back in the same place -- for the sake of tidiness -- sat up, and looked down at my feet. From Wordnik.com. [The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim] Reference
The landlady came; a fit spirit to rule over such a domain -- the beau-ideal of tidiness and good humour. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
Kitchen garbage and manures can also be tossed on the earth and, for a sense of tidiness, covered with hay. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Stich processes often are less akin to the tidiness of engineering than to the gropings of premodern medicine. From Wordnik.com. ['The Tangle Of Egos And Rules'] Reference
Fruit flies are a good reason for those of Teutonic tidiness to vermicompost in the basement or outside the house if possible. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
But the tidiness of the footage affords us the perverse thrill of seeing the human body bend in a way we never imagined it could. From Wordnik.com. [Your Broken Leg—on YouTube] Reference
His father would stop his limousine to pick up littered newspapers, but his passion was not for sensory pleasure but for tidiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Greening Of Chicago] Reference
There's something about a clean, well-run and efficient country like Switzerland which appeals to a Virgo's need for order and tidiness. From Wordnik.com. [Yvonne Yorke: Choose Your Next Vacation Spot by Astrology?] Reference
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