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On either side good-sized villas, well-kept front gardens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

I dreamed green meadows and well-kept dykes and good beasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference

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There are well-kept flower beds, almost every color imaginable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progress In Kandahar A Matter Of Whom To Trust] Reference

And your once white and well-kept hands are stained a sober dun.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference

Connecticut whose appearance became a by-word among the well-kept.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five] Reference

The dresser -- is there anything prettier than a well-kept dresser?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molly Bawn] Reference

Wilmington fit the bill: a model farm town of well-kept frame houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost Hopes Along The Bus Tour] Reference

Stony Point was a well-kept thoroughfare running from the south end of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation] Reference

The teacher has a good cottage and a well-kept farm that serve as models.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference

The Negroes who were thrifty had nice well-kept homes; and it is thus now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference

You can also find quality smoked meats, a well-kept tradition in the area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Savoie the Fair] Reference

Here we are in a country of 800 million people and it is a well-kept secret.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where a Future President Learned About the World] Reference

Montpellier is one of the most luxurious and well-kept small cities of France.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

Browsing on the corn-stalks were three sleek, well-kept milch cows, and a goat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference

Those that are mouse-proof and insect-proof are essential to a well-kept pantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference

The president's views are a well-kept secret, even from many of his top advisers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Battle For Bush's Soul] Reference

Other guests come in ordinary walking dress, but it should be stylish and well-kept.    From Wordnik.com.  [Etiquette] Reference

The public roads were poor; there were few well-kept turnpike roads in the district.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country diary: Somerset] Reference

Perhaps Love Canal will then resemble any other well-kept, middle-class neighborhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return To Love Canal] Reference

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The approach was not a well-kept lawn, but a meadow of grass, ragged and ill-cared for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

A few minutes later the row-boat drew up to a small dock at the end of a well-kept garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference

Sadie followed her in and somehow her mood changed as she looked over the well-kept kitchen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

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But the remedies are simple and easily obtained, being such as may be had at any well-kept apothecary's shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party] Reference

Nothing moved on the well-kept grounds, and the windows didn't show so much as the flutter of a purple curtain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Supermind] Reference

West of Beach 116th Street, a central commercial strip, the well-kept single-family homes have manicured lawns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turning the Tide at the Rockaways] Reference

In a well-kept garden back of the palace there is a fine collection of tropical fruits and of unfamiliar shrubs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Far East] Reference

There was not as yet, a streak of gray in his well-kept beard, and the good humour sparkled in his merry eyes as of old.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference

Among its well-kept secrets is an internal “honors college,” with small classes and a cadre of dedicated professors.    From Wordnik.com.  [15 colleges worth the price] Reference

"It's not a well-kept secret that they don't have a close relationship or confer with each other," one consumer advocate said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Dodd, Top Democrat, Fights Against Elizabeth Warren] Reference

She was already tired of aimlessly wandering along the wide, well-kept streets of Sanford, feeling herself to be quite out of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference

"Why, it's a mansion for sure!" exclaimed Miss Jinny, gazing with approval at the fine front of the tall, well-kept, brown-stone house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Pat at School] Reference

The house did look "nice," its rich cream color showing up the vivid green of the shrubbery and the velvety surface of the well-kept lawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rosemary] Reference