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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… give some idea of the problems that might arise, such as clean, FAIR, FRESH, running and rain, and ones that were more … by the use of a 'Water Engine', 'Whole Cities may be kept clean' [OED online, Scavengery]. This suggests a different …
A History of the County of Essex
… 106 Cherry Island was also a resort of gipsies, whose clean and orderly camp compared favourably with the cottages. …
Survey of London
… streets are broad, and their descent keeps them always clean; it is no wonder that the houses produce good rents. … press. 'Ere long I landed in Southampton-street, a fine clean quiet spot', he told his mother, and found a landlady … looks out upon a little empty space, neatly paved with clean tiles, the[n] a green wooden railing, then the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1827 it employed a constable to feed the prisoners and to clean and maintain the blindhouse. 46 This was presumably the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… declivity of the same formation, and is of neat and clean appearance; near the centre is the market-house. The …
Old and New London
… On his legs were white silk stockings, and over his face a clean napkin, doubled up and laid corner-ways. The face, we …
Survey of London
… wonders, the curtain that hid such gorgeous mysteries, the clean white sawdust down in the circus . 163 It was in the …