1 To Gerty Farish's hopeful spirit a solution appeared to have been reached when she remembered how beautifully Lily could trim hats.
2 A snake of his size, in fighting trim, would be more than any boy could handle.
3 The lines of her body were long, clean and symmetrical; it was a body which occasionally fell into splendid poses; there was no suggestion of the trim, stereotyped fashion-plate about it.
4 I'll have Tonie come over and help me patch and trim my boat.
5 This was a fearful experience, with filth and bad food and cruelty and overwork; but Jurgis stood it and came out in fine trim, and with eighty rubles sewed up in his coat.
6 There were men to scrape each side and men to scrape the back; there were men to clean the carcass inside, to trim it and wash it.
7 She was in another canning factory, and her work was to trim the meat of those diseased cattle that Jurgis had been told about not long before.
8 A top hat, well brushed and trim, was placed upon the floor beside him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY 9 Among the latter was the Prior of Jorvaulx, in the most gallant trim which a dignitary of the church could venture to exhibit.
10 But there he was again, in his shirt-sleeves, stooping, letting the hens out of the coops, among the chicks that were now growing a little gawky, but were much more trim than hen-chickens.
11 One of the largest stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was helping a boy to put up the shutters.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE 12 The trim Inspector Martin, the old, gray-headed country doctor, myself, and a stolid village policeman made up the rest of that strange company.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN 13 But no vision of trim front gardens or of kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence upon him now.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 14 If the lamp smokes or smells I shall try to trim it.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 15 Godalming is an amateur fitter himself, and evidently it was he who put the launch in trim again.