cleanly habits

I feared, at first, that this would prove contagious; but, either my nationality or else my cleanly habits--for I bathed daily in the river--preserved my health and personal appearance.

He was a man who luxuriated in cleanly habits of living, and his linen was a sort of passion with him.

She is slowly dropping out of her cleanly habits.

Negroes introduced to replace the aborigines, 27; the free blacks, 35; their liking for gaudy dresses, 35; in church, 35; their love of music, 36; rebellion of the, 64; barbaric state of the rebel negroes, 109; how the blacks enjoy themselves during the Carnival in Havana, 140; piety of the, 142; the n. at the opera, 142; their superstitions, 193; the n. of the Bahamas, 224; their cleanly habits, 226; the n. of Monserrat, 261.

Their complexion has less of that dark tinge which is common to those savages who have less cleanly habits.