"Untidy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... do, however, for you to go in your present untidy condition," he remarked; "go and put on your best clothes, and by that time I shall ...
— Dick Cheveley - His Adventures and Misadventures • W. H. G. Kingston
... if I may venture to say so, baseball has ever seemed most untidy. Personally I can imagine few things more unseemly than the act of sliding through the dust in order the more expeditiously to attain a given base or station; and even more objectionable, because so ...
— Fibble, D. D. • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
... They were shown into the drawing-room, where Charmion and I were lolling over our tea. There was fruit on the table, besides a selection of cakes from town, and as we had been gardening in the earlier part of the afternoon, and got thoroughly grubby and untidy, we had changed into the tea-gowns which we wear in the evening when we are too lazy to put on more elaborate clothes. They are very nice tea-gowns, and, though I say so who shouldn't, we look exceedingly nice in them, but to the ...
— The Lady of the Basement Flat • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... father. She too was a tall stag of a thing, but she sat bunched up like a witch. She wore a wine-purple dress, her arms seemed to poke out of the sleeves, and she had dragged her brown hair into straight, untidy strands. Yet she had real beauty. She was talking to the young man who was not her husband: a fair, pale, fattish young fellow in pince-nez and dark clothes. This ...
— Aaron's Rod • D. H. Lawrence
... the truth and enhance the value of the new Coan material. But it is now ascertained that some of the wild silk in China is carried by the silkworm round the trees, wrapping them up, as it were, in large, untidy cocoons; so that, as usual, tradition had truth ...
— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford
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