As might be expected, the accommodation is far inferior; and even the cleanest and best regulated houses are infested with frightful insects.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot
When old Thompson needed anything, and ransacked the house until he concluded that it had been burned up, his sister Jane could put her hand on the article immediately; and perhaps Jane Benton's genius, in which she had so much confidence, was a genius for attempting only what she could do well; for whatever her intentions were, she had certainly accomplished nothing, except to distinguish her brother's house as the neatest and cleanest in Davy's Bend.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
And the East Prussian pastor was a branch that must be lopped with the cleanest final cut before real submission could be said to have set in.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim