His was an orderly solid mind that could not do with cracks and holes in it, trimness, neatness, and firmness of outer wall were necessary to its well-being; openness to windy doubts ruined it.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
The whole was simple and unpretending; there was none of that smart trimness which gives to such scenes the air of an imitation.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
As the paths go down the slope they lose their garden-like trimness among bracken and brambles.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond