Word: neatly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...neat little book has just appeared, for the use of the school, containing the recipes for the fifth year's course in cookery. The list of dishes is appetizing and varied, from the everyday fare of bread, roast beef and mutton cutlets, to such delicacies as orange soufflee, plum pudding with fairy butter, and frozen peaches. Certainly, after a few such courses, a girl ought to be thoroughly armed and equipped for the three-fold problem of feminine life, wherein the factors are John, Biddy and the contents of the market basket...
...jerseys for the University Crew arrived Thursday. They are made of white worsted, and have a large "H" embroidered in crimson. They are extremely neat and pretty...
...Jane: a pretty name; but 't won't do nowadays. You'll have to change it to Celinda, or some such. [Aside.] Why, what a neat figure she has. I wish she'd raise her eyes. [Aloud.] Are your eyes brown or blue...
...large table with the University Senate seated about it, and near by were four smaller tables at which sat the Deans of the various faculties. After a few moments of impressive silence, one of the professors at the big table, who had all our papers in a neat pile before him, began to call slowly our names. As each man's name was called he marched up to the table and commenced a process of slow revolution about it, stopping at each of the professors to answer what appeared to be very numerous questions. My name...
...long Guy's friends leave him and he is alone with the Compendium. With a light heart he prepares to retire, humming softly to himself as he forms plans for the morrow. Ah, better for him had that morrow never dawned! After wrapping up his soiled linen in a neat bundle for the janitor, he was about to get into bed when he stepped quite unexpectedly on a tack. Was it an omen of the ills to follow? Who can tell? "Gosh ding it!" exclaimed Guy. (This is an Oberlin oath sanctioned by Mrs. Hayes...