who are you? and what have they been a-sticking of you in there for?' "I told him, and asked him who he was, and it turned out his name was Joe Crump, and he's the boy who cleans the knives at Philips's.

Only when a fire starts in a row of 'em hit cleans up the Company's property same as it does the plunder of the folks that lives in 'em.

" The porter looked at him sympatheticallyeverybody is sympathetic at a hospital, from the head physician and that puissant lady, the matron, down to the boy who cleans the brass plate.

He comes to me as a police officer, a doctor, a soldier, a priest, even as an old hag who cleans the stairs.

But whatever he may use for the purpose, the Hindu cleans his teeth every morning, and that most thoroughly, before he will allow food to pass his lips, and the whiteness and soundness of his teeth are an object of envy to Englishmen.

ter the Fust-Class C.P.O., Sir." There is silence in the foc's'le, on the quarter-deck dismay, And the lower deck is humming in a most unusual way; The working-party pauses as it cleans a six-inch gun, And tho Officer on Duty whispers hoarse to "Number One": "Boy Simpkins (Second Class, too!), I suppose you ought to know, Sir, Had the cheek to mutter 'Blast you!'

I have it now; I know a very respectable woman who occasionally cleans out my store.

The Hindoo who cleans the room would on no account wait at table, while the nurse thinks herself far too good ever to soil her hands by cleaning the child's washing-basin.

It is impossible to have the same respect for the man who cleans your boots, that you have for the man who plans and builds your house.

"The others'll be made by the same party as washes the children, and cooks their dinner for 'em, and puts 'em to bed, and cleans the 'ouse," was the reply.

Cleans silver, boots and the motor.

" St. Mark says, "His raiment became exceeding white as snow, so as no fuller"one who cleans, or whitens cloth"on earth can white them.

I works a little garden and cleans off yards.

But I'd like ter know what he cleans his pencil with,' said Cindy, in conclusion, for I'm free to confess I never see brass shine so in my born days.'

And I've got a nasty cold, and nobody loves me or cleans my buttons, and if I want to go anywhere there are no more motor cars and they make me pay a penny for the tram, and my wife doesn't think I'm a hero any longer, and little James is being taught to blush and look away and start another subject when anybody says "Dad-dad," and (if you can believe this) I've just been made to pay a franc-and-a-half for a tin of bully beef.

DODSLEY, Robert, Cleans, acted, i. 324, n. 1, 325-6; compared by Johnson with Otway, iv.

Betty Carnes (W); 15Sep71; R511843. Selections from American guerrilla: small raiding party cleans up an Italian outpost, by Douglas M. Smith & Cecil Carries.

On Sunday morning the labourer cleans and polishes his boots (after digging the potatoes for dinner), puts on a black or dark coat, put his hands in his pocketsa marked feature thisand rambles down to his garden or the allotment.

Give me one round of fixed ammunition, Arthur." "There's no use drawing," observed another man, laying down his hand, "Berkley cleans us up as usual.

Sasafras is good foh de stomach en cleans yer out good.

Bill Wilson has got about twelve hundred dollars of mine; get the best if it cleans the sack."

As often as the swineherd cleans out the stye he should strew the floor with sand, or some thing else to absorb moisture.

Beats me, Capm; cleans me out.

I meanwhile from my post on high Ne'er from my master turn an eye, Look at him now, with far-off gaze Pondering, testing every phrase; The snuffer once he seizes quick And cleans of soot the flaming wick; Then oft in deep abstraction, he Murmurs a sentence audibly, Which I with outstretched bill peck up And fill with lore my eager crop.

But sand is a mark of respect in Russia and Turkey, and it really cleans the streets a little.