cleanly habits

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Their houses for the most part are situated near running water; hence, their cleanly habits.

From Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Karpeles, Gustav

Aunt Betsy was all goodness, and offered to accommodate half a dozen young ladies of neat and cleanly habits.

From The Golden Calf by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Thus, linen and cotton are preferable to silk and woollen next the skin, which should be worn only by persons of the most cleanly habits.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Barrow, John, Sir

Cleanliness is, in fact, the essential feature in modern dairying, not only in the cow-house, but in the milking utensils, the drainage, etc., and, above all, the milker should be of cleanly habits.

From The Bacillus of Long Life a manual of the preparation and souring of milk for dietary purposes, together with and historical account of the use of fermente by Douglas, Loudon

She is slowly dropping out of her cleanly habits.

From Notes on Old Edinburgh by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)