Example Sentences

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We drove back into the city, through narrow mud-walled streets, forbidding and not overclean.

From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow

By one o'clock that afternoon she had shifted bag and baggage to a stuffy and poorly furnished bedchamber in a crowded, noisy, and not overclean theatrical hotel situated on a corner of Longacre Square.

From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph

Don drew from his pocket the letter, painfully scrawled on cheap, and not overclean paper, and handed it over.

From 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands by Taylor, H. Weston

The lights were still on, however, in the hallways, revealing not overclean stairs and, for a wonder, an electric elevator.

From The Street of Seven Stars by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

In his red shirt and coarse breeches, and brown, not overclean skin, he certainly didn't look much like a gentleman in the conventional sense of that term.

From Joe's Luck Always Wide Awake by Alger, Horatio