A good engineer keeps his engine clean, washes the boiler whenever he thinks it needs it.

The account of the Flood is made up out of two discrepant originals, marked by the names Elohim and Jehovah; of which one makes Noah take into the ark seven pairs of clean, and single (or double?) pairs of unclean, beasts; while the other gives him two and two of all kinds, without distinguishing the clean.

Sure she has transform'd me, I had forgot my tongue clean, I never saw a face yet, but this rare one,

Most factories furnish with each engine a flue cleaner and rod.

For the first time in her life she had the supreme satisfaction of having two unfortunate house-cleaners entirely at her disposal; consequently, she drove them about and worried them to an extent unparalleled in any of their former experience.

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.

I'm like those plague-stricken wretches who, of wanton wickedness, ran from their beds to infect the clean with their foul ill?

The rainstorm which had swept up during the night had passed, leaving the morning clean.

He was about to detach and pack up the cleaner when another idea seemed to occur to him.

Up and down the floor, around and under the bed he pushed the cleaner.

(They are trying to keep their backs to each other, and to rub their faces cleaner.)

"As the sahib doubtless remembers, between that coffee shop and the next house is a stone buttress jutting out into the street, forming on its side farthest from the coffee-shop a dark corner, for whose filth and stink the street cleaners ought to be punished.

Bell, from a side window joined in, and a single glance told the reason: up from the south rode cavalry, sweeping the pike clean of its riff-raff, and behind, barely visible through the dust, tramped a compact mass of infantry, breaking into double time.

The most daring writer of fiction could scarcely devise a more romantic meeting than this between the autocrat of Russia and the red-armed, bustling cleaner of the window-panes, and he would certainly never have ventured to build on it the romance of which it was the prelude.

While it is doing this in one direction, it is turning machinery in another that cleans and weighs the grain off into sacks ready for the market.