This, in cleaning or washing, contracts and leaves the buttonhole edging, and in a few cleanings it is a mass of unmendable rags.
"Chats on Old Lace and Needlework"
Emily Leigh Lowes
It is only by annual house cleanings and account clearings that you can tell about how you stand.
"Business Hints for Men and Women"
Alfred Rochefort Calhoun
During the rest at Carlisle it was agreed that Lord Wargrove, in consultation with Mr. Robert Adam, the Duke's legal adviser and boon companion, should draw up a schedule of his losses-such as might be expected to pass the House of Commons without any of the unpleasant rakings up of the past which usually distinguished these periodical cleanings of the slate.
"Patsy"
S. R. Crockett