And he was devoted to his books, which were in apple-pie order.

The lodge was in apple-pie order when she got back.

We handed over the Company in apple-pie order, and they went wild with it.

FOR just about the whole first week, everything around here was in apple-pie order.

“It was not like going into an office and finding all the files in apple-pie order.

He surveyed the apple-pie order of the interior with vast satisfaction.

Mrs. Pratt, the nurse, you know, left everything in apple-pie order.

Henry still lives above his own offices, he won't be long looking it up, his files are kept in apple-pie order.

Inside, everything is arranged in apple-pie order, reminiscent of old-fashioned chain grocers.

Everything seemed in apple-pie order to him.

The third, Captain Trevelyan's own room, was in exquisite and apple-pie order.

It was a neat * building, with everything in apple-pie order, and no danger of anything rusting there for want of oil.

I found everything in apple-pie order.

His affairs were in apple-pie order, luckily!

Yure good wife has put her house in apple-pie order for the ockashun; everything is just in the right place.

"Everything is in apple-pie order," he said.

I promised Uncle Teddy that you shouldn't see it till it was all in apple-pie order.

I noted that the richly upholstered and dark-wood furnishings were in neat, apple-pie order.

Her sewing basket, dresser drawers and pantry shelves are all systematically arranged in apple-pie order.

The room was in apple-pie order, with the afternoon sun slanting in through the modem casement windows which Wolfe had admired.

"[They are] not just only on the shelves but cleaned, security tagged and in beautiful apple-pie order and ready for people to look at.

Rather empty, but in apple-pie order, with its cream- coloured panels, and its china, and its grand piano.

His books are in "apple-pie order," and he really does care about his job, just as he cares about his appearance, which is immaculate.

Everything was in apple-pie order as far as Obergefreiter Stalin of the 27th's No. 5 Company was concerned.

Before my husband passed away he saw that everything was in apple-pie order and the only reason I'm selling is because there's nothing here for me, now that he's gone.