What is "tidiness"

Usage examples of "tidiness".

Middlemas had finished serving coffee, before Jaikie had made up his mind whether he preferred Alison in her present tidiness or in the gipsydom of the morning, there appeared a figure which effectually banished its complacent tranquillity.

Granted Humber was away at Nottingham races and had not spent long in the office in the morning, but the tidiness was basic, not temporary.

That was what all her tidiness and orderliness around the house were about.

The gentle spinster had taken Cara into her home and raised her with love and kindness, inculcating into her, as she grew to adult hood, the virtues of thriftiness, tidiness, and prudence.

Roberta, by her small, compact figure, her pale face with its pointed chin and dark eyes set so very wide apart, by a certain air of grave watchfulness, by the Quakerish tidiness of her black dress and white collar.

Hands go diligently along the bulwarks, and with buckets of water and rags restore them to their full tidiness.

Reza and I pride ourselves on the speed and tidiness of our dissections -and this teamwork is yet another key feature of scientific labour Most scholarly work is intensely lonely.

Although I valued tidiness over most things, I knew from his other paintings that there should be some disorder on the table, something to snag the eye.

Much that was known didn't fit with the werebear tale: the specificity and tidiness of the flesh removal, caching the flesh, stealing film, moving and hiding the body.