29 examples of clean-up in sentences

I can put you in the way of getting a claim for eight thousand dollars that you can take eighty thousand out of next August, with no inspector coming round to check your clean-up, and no Government grabbing at your royalties.

When he had got his guests thoroughly warmed up: "Yes, I took out several thousand last fall, and I'll have twenty thousand more out of my first summer clean-up.

Never a clean-up since the foundation of the world.

The water was to be regulated, and then the clean-up as soon as

Or perhaps Austin liked him because, although the Boy did a good deal of "gassin' with the gang," he had never hung about at clean-ups.

Let the young man stop and see the richest clean-up at the Forks.

the night before the quarrel, and who had enraged Austin by stopping an instant during the clean-up to look at his gold.

"He had words with Austin, himself, the night o' the clean-up.

But it was the day of the final "clean-up" for the Colonel; he must not leave misapprehension behind.

"Draw all my wages, borrow all I can, and make a clean-up on that Y-Bar outfit on the race between the Gold Dust maverick and Thunderbolt!"

You take me to Meleese or there'll be a clean-up that will put you and the whole bunch out of business.

[130] [The clean-up.]

" "And what," asked Mary, "is his share of the clean-up to be?" "Oh, a half," said Paula; "we'd be equal partners.

After the first clean-up, his mother did not even try to begin on it.

A representative of Doctor Slayforth came out from Nome to watch the first clean-up, and Bill, in his capacity as chambermaid, set up a cot for him in the cabin shared by Black Jack and Denny.

" That evening Black Jack called upon the handy-man to help with the clean-up, and put him to tend the water while he and Denny, under the watchful eye of the owner's representative, lifted the riffles, worked down the concentrates, and removed them from the boxes.

At the next clean-up Laughing Bill took less interest in his part of the work and more in Denny Slevin's.

That such was indeed the case and that Slevin was not the only thief Bill soon discovered, for after the next clean-up he slipped away through the twilight and took stand among the alders outside the rear window of the shack on the hill.

By the light of an oil lamp Black Jack was putting the final touches to the clean-up.

When the larger part of Slayforth's winter's clean-up had changed hands the two partners adjourned to Thomas's little office.

I never was much of a hand to take money from women, so I served a warnin' on him that if we didn't get down to business pretty quick and make our clean-up I proposed to leave him flat on his back.

Perhaps someone had found time even to do an editorial; in that case the clean-up would be complete.

Every week or so Baldy, with Irish and Rover and some of the Wild Goose dogs from the Grand Central Ditch House near, would be hitched to a flat car belonging to the place, and would have a trip into town with Moose to take the gold dust from the "clean-ups" to the bank.

Not telling about that clean-up you and Kit made last night is a dead give-away.

Somebody's got to stay with the Bridger place till Dilly shows up, seeing that's all he's got left after the clean-up.

29 examples of  clean-up  in sentences