cleanly habits
Example Sentences
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He reasoned that since they subsisted upon roots mainly, they were of cleanly habits and quite as apt to be nourishing and appetizing, if properly cooked, as rabbit.
From The Dude Wrangler by Lockhart, Caroline
Punch up the men a little in the matter of cultivating cleanly habits, etc.
From Happiness and Marriage by Towne, Elizabeth
"I would like to make my own butter," sighed Patience, whose mother's cleanly habits had made her famous for it.
From Under the Storm by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
No; it is manly to exercise self-control; to act from principle; to have cleanly habits; to be unselfish; to pay one's debts; to be sober; and to have the approval of one's conscience.
From Tiger and Tom and Other Stories for Boys by Various
He was a man who luxuriated in cleanly habits of living, and his linen was a sort of passion with him.
From The Son of his Father by Cullum, Ridgwell
