Then she held them up to the light to admire their unwonted cleanness.

Manhood had darkened only the surface of his skin, a milk-white cleanness breaking through it like the outflushing of some inner purity.

Thrift and exceeding cleanness are sadly at war with the picturesque.

Late in the day as it isdoubly unseemly and ungracious as the confession will seem nowI will tell him of that lie with which I first sullied the cleanness of our union.