Tidied

I've been meaning to write about Trappings for a while now, and then of course I "tidied" my office and an enormous number of things got put in one of those dread piles from which only now are the bravest and most stalwart to-dos escaping. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Then he "tidied" the bed with masculine pulls and jerks till it was even more untidy than before, and went back to his chair. ❋ Rachel Hayward (N/A)

She brought a "tidied" rocking-chair, and smiling in her welcome, said that as this was his first visit, she must make him comfortable. ❋ Opie Percival Read (1895)

The girls hastily 'tidied' the room, which meant putting the chairs against the wall, and piling all the odds and ends into a corner and partly hiding them with the big leather arm-chair that Father used to sit in after dinner. ❋ Unknown (1891)

They had visited the Coliseum, at that period still overhung with ivy garlands and trailing greeneries, and not, as now, scraped clean and bare and "tidied" out of much of its picturesqueness. ❋ Susan Coolidge (1870)

Yet notwithstanding this ominous comparison she presently made her appearance with her sleeves turned down, her black woollen dress "tidied," and a smile of fatigued but not unkindly welcome and protection on her face. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)

The bold promontory on which it stood is now neatly kept and 'tidied' with smooth slopes, straight walks, and double rows of trees, pleasant to walk upon, but more suggestive of the Bois de Boulogne than the approach to a ruin. ❋ Henry Blackburn (1863)

"tidied" ( "redded" having been censored by Derry some time ago) and a very peaceful, homelike atmosphere prevailed. ❋ Belle Kanaris Maniates (N/A)

"tidied," Mrs. Somerville sat down on the bed and taking up some pieces of cloth began to tack them together with needle and thread, ready for the machine. ❋ John Maurice Miller (N/A)

So I kind of tidied up everything I was working on. " ❋ Unknown (2010)

"tidied," and prepared, by a judicious distribution of ash-trays and cedar-wood boxes, for the gentlemen to smoke in. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)

Other app makers, including Twitter Inc., Yelp Inc. and Foursquare Inc., have since tidied up the way they ask for address-book data. ❋ John Paczkowski (2012)

As we tidied up our picnic he came dashing out of a side door and stopped for a chat. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I'm posting this now to get it out of the way (and done in April) though I still haven't caught up on the Museums and the Web 2009 'backchannel', tidied my notes or read all the papers I wanted to read. ❋ Mia (2009)

As she stacked boxes and tidied the packages of Mexican, Argentine and Salvadoran sausages and the salami favored by customers from the Dominican Republic, Leon said she and her husband and three children live in the rented basement of a nearby house. ❋ Brigid Schulte (2011)

He remembered locking all of them when he and his wife had tidied Wheeler's aged brick duplex a few days earlier. ❋ Unknown (2011)

No! scoffed the 64-year-old shop assistant as he tidied the display of chocolate money. ❋ Unknown (2011)

With one eye on the clock, I tried to judge exactly when the little one would be in bed and the house tidied before leaving my desk. ❋ Unknown (2011)