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  • But he was standing before his wife's dressing-table, and the mirror showed him a squat insignificant burgess in shirtsleeves, with grizzled untidied hair, and mild accommodating pale eyes, and an inadequate nose, with huge nostrils, and a spacious naked-looking upper-lip.

    The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions 1917

  • Other dolls got their hair mussed or their clothes untidied or something; but Kewpie could always be depended on to be neat and smiling no matter where he slept or what happened to him -- a most satisfactory doll to take to bed as you can see.

    Mary Jane: Her Book Clara Ingram Judson 1914

  • The remains of a fire untidied the grate; the flimsiest curtains were hung before the windows.

    Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl 1909

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