I intended to shoot him cleanly through the hand, but instead of that I tore up his whole forearm.

As for the bullet itself, it had whipped cleanly through, at that short distance making nothing of its target.

It seemed impossible that there should be a cleanly reserve, a proper self-respect among individuals, or a wholesome unfamiliarity between families, where human life was crowded and massed into such intimate communities as these.

The German had fainted from the pain of the arm, which Frank had broken cleanly as he released it.

Steinmetz placed one hand on the table and, despite his weight, vaulted it cleanly.

THE WILD BOAR is a much more cleanly and sagacious animal than the domesticated hog; he is longer in the snout, has his ears shorter and his tusks considerably longer, very frequently measuring as much as 10 inches.

Let the floor of the house slope half an inch to the foot from back to front, so as to insure drainage; let it also be close, hard, and perfectly smooth; so that it may be cleanly swept out.

Intensely painful and disgusting these plagues must have been to the Egyptians, for this reason, that they were the most cleanly of all people.

But amid it all he remained very gentle, and, unlike most misers, continued very cleanly in his habits, keeping his beard, which was now white as snow, very carefully tended.

so may the fresh-coloured and cleanly nursery maid, who, by leave, airs her playful charge in your stately gardens, drop her prettiest blushing curtsy as ye pass, reductive of juvenescent emotion!

They eat, as a horse bolts his chopt hay, with indifference, calmness, and cleanly circumstances.

The most cleanly and convenient apparatus is a cork nipple, upon the plan of M. Darbo, of Paris, fixed in the sucking-bottle.[FN#9] The cork, being of a particularly fine texture, is supple and elastic, yielding to the infant's lips while sucking, and is much more durable than the teats ordinarily used.

He thought it would be best to put him to board at the tailor's, then he would grow into the trade without much trouble, and would have nice companions in the tailor's own boys; they were suited to each other, for the tailor's sons were also dressed as cleanly and carefully as he was.

Now, while it is admitted that this is a very common case, it is yet believed that the former class of children would be still more vigorous than they now are, if they were kept more cleanly, or were at least frequently washed.

He had blown the gun cleanly out of the sharpshooter's hand.

Beds for guests, marry, we have none, but cleanly accomodings at the Crown & Horseshoe.

A most cleanly, bright-coloured, foreign-looking street, is that long straggling one which runs up the hill towards Penalva Court: only remark, that this cleanliness is gained by making the gutter in the middle street the common sewer of the town, and tread clear of cabbage-leaves, pilchard bones, et id genus omne.

The ladies in general affable and polite, and extremely fond of dress, and very neat and cleanly in their persons.

He wasted not an ounce of energy, but ran cleanly and straightly and splendidly.

From this place he could study his rivals well, and after some shifting of positions, he saw the Troy Latin School eight coming cleanly out of the parade and making swiftly after him.

On the contrary, if he means to preserve the powers of his palate intact, he must "live cleanly as a nobleman should do."

To be sober, attentive to his duty, honest, obliging and cleanly, are the qualifications necessary to fit him for my purposes.

Glorious times they had, these young people, in that pale brown cleanly city of memories that was once the world.

Miss Allison declared the work to be more cleanly, more pleasant, and infinitely less fatiguing than cooking over a kitchen stove.

Little Peter, like most other children, was always the picture of cleanly neatness when first he left his nurse's hand in the morning, and his mother was much pleased at the evident interest with which their guest regarded him, asking him various questions about his lessons, his sports, and his pony.