Then she needs a friend who shall smooth it out and polish it up and return it to her,-a friend who believes in its inherent spotlessness and will do her best to convince others of the same.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
But down from the end of the path it looked so charming that she wished she could paint it in watercolours-the great trees, the tempered sunlight, the glimpse of the old church at one end, the glimpse of the embosomed lake at the other, and in the middle, set out so neatly, with such a grace of spotlessness, the table of her first tea-party.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
She talked and laughed gaily, not a shred of fear of him left in her, and even when she said, struck by his spotlessness, that he looked so clean that one could eat one's dinner off him, and Scrap laughed, Mellersh laughed too.
"The Enchanted April"
Elizabeth von Arnim