TIDY
13 (out of 17) usages are of tidy/untidy as adjectives; 3 instances of the phrase "tidying up" (See: AUNTSR-1, .p1
and .p3) and 1 instance of "has been tidying" (See: VICTPR32).
UWE-MS42, .p1221
A
profound stillness lasted for a
few seconds and then the door
was brusquely opened by a
short black eyed woman in a red blouse with
a great lot of nearly white hair
done up negligently in
an untidy and picturesque manner
Her thin jetty eyebrows were
drawn together.
UWETSR42, invalid format
VICTPR32, .p283
-- {op"}He has been tidying the place in this labour-saving way",
explained Berg without looking at the
girl whose had rested on his forearm.
NLL? AUNTSR-1, .p1
This, to be frank about it,
is a process of tidying up which from the nature of things can not be
regarded as premature.
NLL? AUNTSR-1, .p1
That certainly is one way of tidying up.{stx}
But it would have been too much to have expected me to treat all this
matter as removable rubbish.
NLL? AUNTSR-1, .p3
This volume (including these embarrassed introductory remarks)
is as near as I will ever come to deshabille{a} in public; and perhaps
it will do something to help towards a better vision of the man, if it
gives no more than a partial view of a piece of his back, a little
dusty (after the process of tidying up), a little bowed, and receding
from the world not because of weariness or misanthropy but for other reasons
that can not be helped: because the leaves fall, the water flows,
the clock ticks with that horrid pitiless solemnity which you
must have observed in the ticking in the hall clock at home.
NOSTHR36, .p158
A long course of reading of historical works of a light and gossipy
character carried out in garrets of Parisian hotels sprawling on an untidy bed to the neglect
of his duties menial or otherwise had affected the manners
of Pedro Montero.
NSTSHR37, .p133(158)
A long course of reading of historical works of a light and
gossippy
character carried out in garrets sprawling on an untidy bed to
the neg-
lect of his duties menial or otherwise had affected the manners
if not
the character of Pedro Montero.
OIMSPR-4, .p43
She was untidy even then, he remarked.
and that was the only impression he carried away from that visit.
SA-MSK01, .p6
Sometimes however it
was Mrs Verloc who would
appear, young yet, of rounded
forms, not very tidy
and also steady eyed but
with an air of unfathomable
indifference behind the
rampart of the counter.
SA-MSK09, .p541
You know you do get
yourself very untidy when you get
a chance Steevie"
Mr Verloc was already gone some
way down the street.
SMFTSR-5, .p91
She sat leaning on her elbow, looking at nothing .Why did
she stay listening to my absurd chatter ? And not only that; but why
.p91
her face with powder in preparation for my arrival -- which seemed
to be her idea of making a toilette,and in her untidy negligence a
sign of great effort for personal adornment ?
SMFTSR-4, .p69
I saw that it looked as though it had not been touched again
since that distant time of first putting up ;it was a mass of black
lustrous locks, twisted anyhow high on her head,with long untidy wisps
hanging down on each side of the clear sallow face; a mass so thick
and strong and abundant that, nothing but to look at, it gave you a sensation
of heavy pressure on the top of your head and an impression of
magnificently cynical untidiness.
SMF-MS-4, .p70
Untidy
wisps hung on each side of
her clear sallow face.
BODMSU-1, .p12
Pretty tidy sums must have been
.p13
moving afloat just then.
BODMSU-1, .p20
He expected
to say he said to bring in a
tidy lot, but he told, he said
.p21
that there were no pirates Jave-
sea pirates except in boys' books.
BODTSR-1, .p6
Pretty tidy sums must have been moving afloat just then.
EOT-MS-3, .p40
It was a recently opened and untidy
thoroughfare with rudimentary
sidewalks and a soft layer of dust in
the wide roadway.