"She can't boast of being a clean-handed person and the right one to lead.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Still less should it be needful to insist upon the importance to every reader of books, of coming to their perusal clean-handed. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
Ladies and Gentlemen, there is a grand cover-up in progress and the White House cannot afford to have any clean-handed Boy Scouts spill the beans. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Wall Street Journal Editors: Public Schools In New Orleans Should Never Reopen] Reference
That ought to help reserve power for the clean-handed. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
In some respects he is clever and remarkably clean-handed. From Wordnik.com. [Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life] Reference
Well, between you and me, I wish he'd gotten away clean-handed. From Wordnik.com. [Way of the Lawless] Reference
But, I'll give you this -- I'll give you your man clean-handed. From Wordnik.com. [The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country] Reference
American courts are clean-handed throughout, and the people know it. From Wordnik.com. [The American Judiciary] Reference
And for a while I served my vision, honoring you with clean-handed deeds. From Wordnik.com. [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference
Government against the attacks of that strong-willed, clean-handed patriot. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)] Reference
Briton too often becomes — but a proud, ambitious, clean-handed, and capable man. From Wordnik.com. [Mankind in the Making] Reference
To be clean-handed in all political dealings, to guard both honor and responsibility in matt. From Wordnik.com. [manybooks.net] Reference
The gentle-mannered fellow, clean-minded, clean-handed, of the breakfast or supper table was one man. From Wordnik.com. [The Pit] Reference
So, clear speaking is needed: a fight that is not clean-handed will make victory more disgraceful than any defeat. From Wordnik.com. [Principles of Freedom] Reference
Only so did she feel that she could go free of all obligation, clean-handed, without stultifying herself in her own eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Big Timber A Story of the Northwest] Reference
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?. From Wordnik.com. [A Life's Morning] Reference
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. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain)] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Prime Minister] Reference
But it brought me up short, to think that my own husband would try to play cuttle-fish with a clean-hearted and a clean-handed man like Peter. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Child] Reference
"Oh, if I could come to you clean-handed!" he interrupted, passionately; "if I could offer you a hand unstained by the blood of a fellow creature!". From Wordnik.com. [The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Militants Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Burl] Reference
The principal security is, that he has not the courage to spend twenty scudi -- the average price of a clean-handed bravo -- otherwise there is no want of opportunity, for. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Romola] Reference
"And you have come by them clean-handed, which is rare. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
"I'm asking your aid because you're new and clean-handed. From Wordnik.com. [A Hoosier Chronicle] Reference
I'm waitin 'to see if he does extry well to sea 'fore I let my mind come to bear on his bein' clean-handed. ". From Wordnik.com. [In Dark New England Days] Reference
The others're not so clean-handed as we are. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
None but the clean-handed can ascend into the hill of the Lord (justified through. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
A mighty clean-handed Fellow!. From Wordnik.com. [The Beggar's Opera] Reference
De Ganache was not clean-handed. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
And the clean-handed waxeth ever stronger. From Wordnik.com. [The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur] Reference
A mighty clean-handed Fellow!. From Wordnik.com. [The Beggar's Opera to which is prefixed the Musick to each Song] Reference
White-souled, clean-handed, pure of heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
A proud, ambitious, clean-handed, and capable man. From Wordnik.com. [Mankind in the Making] Reference
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