| 单词 | clean-handed |
| 例句 | "I may be sorry that he is not more clean-handed; but I tell you again, Tom, they never indulged such punctilios in our young days, and I 'm too old to go to school again!" Barrington Volume II (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:32.490Z These good chiefs in their higher grade dealings preserve the same clean-handed conduct. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z The cowardly, contemptible cad, who would have his desire at the cost of all that was decent and clean-handed! The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z A healthy crew you are!" he remarked contemptuously; "a nice, clean-handed lot, without grit enough to steal a horse, but plenty of it for robbing a dead boy. Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z I want to learn that he is as clean-handed in this affair with the Sewells as he thinks himself. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z You are her affectionate father, an honorable, clean-handed man. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z If a priest has really made his escape from the prison, you are not clean-handed enough to meet the accusation; see to it then, Boivin, that I may be free at once.' Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune Hume was an ardent, honest, clean-handed politician without money, but he had for manager one Ethan Knowles, a cool-headed, tireless veteran of campaign battles, with David acting as assistant and speech maker. David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West The accusations have been made by men clean-handed themselves; but to them it has appeared unreasonable to believe that a Roman oligarch of those days should be an honest gentleman. The Life of Cicero Volume II. In some respects he is clever and remarkably clean-handed. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life And you have come by them clean-handed, which is rare.—Moreover, In Her Own Right Here again he had acquitted himself in the same clean-handed manner, never touching a dollar of the money intrusted to him, saving so far as officially authorized. Burl And in this way he had learned to distrust men without bitterness; looking on life mainly as a game of skill, but not dead to traditions of heroism and clean-handed honour. Romola No one so utterly unlike the usual Roman, so lost amid the self-seekers of Rome, so unnecessarily clean-handed, could be found! The Life of Cicero Volume II. Still less should it be needful to insist upon the importance to every reader of books, of coming to their perusal clean-handed. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries You have had in me, as you were wont to say, a most clean-handed Judge: I shall leave behind in you my most uncorrupted witnesses.' The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Slotkin exclaimed, in the hearty tones of a conscientious man, glad that for once the performance of his official duty redounded to clean-handed personal profit. Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Then Gizur was very wrath, and said— "Thou art unlike thy father, though he was thought not to be quite clean-handed; yet was he ever helpful to men when they needed him most." The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga If he could make Gantry and his superiors come clean-handed to the election, there need be no exposure, no cataclysm involving both the railroad officials and his father. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush He removed the royal officials having charge of the supplies for the Philippines, putting clean-handed men in their places; and in consequence the amount of supplies sent to that colony was greater than ever before.... The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. The clean-handed, light-hearted disregard of self that had been his habit of mind always came flooding back like sunshine as he felt his decision made. The Militants Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World He goes into it clean-handed enough and he only half likes it. The Inheritors So, clear speaking is needed: a fight that is not clean-handed will make victory more disgraceful than any defeat. Principles of Freedom Only so did she feel that she could go free of all obligation, clean-handed, without stultifying herself in her own eyes. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Why, I've gone all my life thanking God that I come of a race of gentlemen, clean-handed, and praying God to make me worthy of it. Black Jack Well, between you and me, I wish he'd gotten away clean-handed. Way of the Lawless I, at any rate, was clean-handed in the matter; I hadn't any axe to grind. The Inheritors And for a while I served my vision, honoring you with clean-handed deeds. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice As a whole, however, American courts are clean-handed throughout, and the people know it. The American Judiciary That isn't my idea; I'm going to win the election clean-handed; satisfaction in looking back on an honest piece of work; what? A Life's Morning May it wave there so long as it covers just laws, honest officials, and clean-handed administrators—so long and no longer! The Great Boer War In our house we had no secrets: the young folk, being trusted, were ever trustworthy; and the parents, clean-handed and pure-hearted, had nothing that they were afraid to tell their children. John Halifax, Gentleman Essentially clean-handed, the soul of him had begun to wither at the contact of that which he saw about him and was so large a part of. Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) And now there was clearly no escape,—no escape compatible with that clean-handed truth from which it was not possible for him to swerve. The Prime Minister He had always been Bud Birnie, son and heir of Bob Birnie, as clean-handed a cattle king as ever recorded a brand. Cow-Country |
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