The neater, the cleaner, the brighter she made her home, the more terrible must be a sentence of perpetual banishment.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
Begin to force only when he is two and a half to three years old, and by the time he is four years he will not only be a neater but a larger animal than if he had been forced earlier: forcing in youth deteriorates the symmetry of the animal as well as diminishes his size.
"Cattle and Cattle-breeders"
William M'Combie
"Did you ever see a horse held neater?
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever