In this operation we want the aid of Phyllis's neat, soft, and perfectly clean hand; for no mechanical operation can so well squeeze out the sour particles of milk or curd.

He offered to bet everything he'd won, or double or nothing, and when the boys didn't want to do that, it give him a clean hand to stand up and get out.

nice hand, good hand, clean hand; practiced hand, experienced eye, experienced hand; marksman; good shot, dead shot, crack shot; ropedancer, funambulist^, acrobat; cunning man; conjuror &c (deceiver) 548; wizard &c 994. genius; mastermind, master head, master spirit.

bonne foi [Fr.], good faith, bona fides [Lat.]; purity, clean hands. fairness &c adj.; fair play, justice, equity, impartiality, principle, even-handedness; grace.

[Lat.], with clean hands.

clean hands, clear conscience, mens sibi conscia recti [Lat.]

But already it was a rare thingand the rarer, because the government adhered rigidly to the old principle of not paying public officials that a governor returned with quite clean hands from his province; it was already remarked upon as something singular that Paullus, the conqueror of Pydna, did not take money.

Yes; and clean hands and faces too.

There purity comes first, symbolised by clear floor, clean hands, and spotless dishes.

He that hath clean hands and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity.'" Leslie Goldthwaite's face quickened and glowed; they were the psalm lines that had haunted her thought yesterday, among the opening visions of the hill-country.

Oh, my friends, whatsoever you do, keep clean hands and a pure heart.

The same silver may be moulded to the altar-chalice or the Bacchic goblet; but we touch the one with reverent and clean hands, while the other is tossed aside in the madness of the revel.

If money be a bad thing in itself, how can a man meddle with it with clean hands?

She would have had the boy engage in a pursuit that would require clean hands and smart apparel and bring him in contact with people of the right sort.

TRAIN, ARTHUR C. Clean hands.

Helen C. Train (W); 23Mar65; R357979. TRAIN, HELEN C. Clean hands.

He that hath clean hands and a pure heart."

The apron may be said to refer to the "pure heart," the gloves to the "clean hands."

But while our American and English masons have adhered only to the apron, and rejected the gloves as a Masonic symbol, the latter appear to be far more important in symbolic science, because the allusions to pure or clean hands are abundant in all the ancient writers.

Hence, as an element of consecration, corn is intended to remind us of those temporal blessings of life and health, and comfortable support, which we derive from the Giver of all good, and to merit which we should strive, with "clean hands and a pure heart," to erect on the corner-stone of our initiation a spiritual temple, which shall be adorned with the "beauty of holiness.

" Her judgment was convinced, however, very shortly afterwards, by a discussion of the subject with Weld and some others, and she then wrote to Jane Smith to set her name down, as she found her testimony in the great cause was greatly strengthened by keeping clean hands.

They would appear with clean hands; but poor Mr. Juniper would receive the sympathy of none.

STEWED PEAS.If from the garden, pick and shell the peas with clean hands; if from the market, wash the pods before shelling, so that the peas will not require washing, as they are much better without.

She wore earrings in her small ears, and the taper fingers of her rough but clean hands were covered with rings.

But though I am now to state that it failed, I cannot but consider it as a matter of pleasing reflection, that this great subject was first introduced into parliament by those who were worthy of it; by those who had clean hands and irreproachable characters, and to whom no motive of party or faction could be imputed, but only such as must have arisen from a love of justice, a true feeling of humanity, and a proper sense of religion.