Word: neat
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...very neat thing in gravestones has been discovered in New Hampshire. The stone is surmounted by a hand, pointing upwards; beneath may be read these lines: "Gone...
...that Sicilian hotels are so dirty that you cannot sit down to dinner without washing your plate. The large hotels of Palermo, Messina, and Catania are among the best in Italy; while even the small Italian inns, such as the "Locanda del Sole" in Syracuse, are as clean, neat, and inviting as one could wish...
...Transcript, from Delaware, Ohio, is amusing in the glimpse it affords of the manners and customs of the natives. They have high-toned stationers out there, and neat things in visiting-cards in advance of the Paris style, as is seen in the following advertisement...
...away; yes, the noble structure, guarded on either side by a majestic line of time-worn benches, must no longer stand an eyesore to the artistic proprietors of the mansions lying beneath its frowning walls. Truly this is an age of improvement, and no doubt a year hence a neat Gothic club-house with its grand stand and gargoyled tower will be kept from the vulgar gaze by rows of hedge many cubits high. How glad we should be to bid farewell to the ancient structure! There is but one thing to mar our joy. "How can we bear...
...sexton looks grave and neat...