Money from the sale of chickens, turkeys, butter, eggs, and garden truck that other women of the neighbourhood used for extra clothing for themselves and their daughters and to prettify their homes, Mrs. Bates handed to her husband to increase the amount necessary to purchase the two hundred acres of land for each son when he came of age.
"A Daughter of the Land"
Gene Stratton-Porter
"That's really what I came for, to prettify it a little.
"The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted"
Katharine Ellis Barrett
I must send him a little box at Christmas,-some little things to trim up his new house and prettify it.
"Hildegarde's Harvest"
Laura E. Richards