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Example sentences for "clean shirt"

  • He was dressed all in black, with boots as shiny as his eyes, a low white neckcloth, and a clean shirt with a frill to it.

  • Mr. Pell was waiting at the usual place of meeting at the appointed time; even he wore a pair of gloves and a clean shirt, much frayed at the collar and wristbands by frequent washings.

  • Kate, who had expected no more uncommon appearance than Newman Noggs in a clean shirt, was not a little astonished to see that the opener was a man in handsome livery, and that there were two or three others in the hall.

  • I was going into the kitchen, when Sorle appeared and said: "Go into your chamber, shave yourself, and put on a clean shirt.

  • When we were out, he said to me: "Moses, you send the man a clean shirt.

  • This woman had so much good sense, she had so many times set things right by her ready wit, that I said nothing more, and went into my bedroom to shave myself and put on a clean shirt.

  • For a year or two after our marriage, I used to express impatience, whenever, in putting on a clean shirt, I found a button gone.

  • I muttered to myself the next morning, as I put on a clean shirt.

  • You need a clean shirt and a new bandanna, but you won't get them, neither--not yet awhile.

  • Go now and get a shave and a clean shirt, and start again.

  • Fan had contrived to get a clean shirt on him by the trick of whisking away his old one and substituting a white one in its place.

  • Pears like I ought to afford a clean shirt.

  • I couldn't do no less than put a clean shirt on, when it's my master's birthday.

  • When either of the two thought he wanted a clean shirt, which was very seldom, he went and washed one for himself.

  • Don't waste a clean shirt on my funeral," retorted Mr. Treverton.

  • You ugly brute, you've got a clean shirt on!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    anie wise; civil life; clean bill; clean breast; clean shirt; clean stewpan; clean sweep; clean them; clean towel; clean water; clean white; cleanse ourselves from all; clearly defined; colored people; could scarcely; false teeth; good boy; livestock raising; more danger; organic matters; select party; that manner; thousand little; three wire; vestal virgin; wish you