cleanlier

I'm sleeping better, eating better, being much cleanlier both toward myself (with my own bathroom a few feet away, laziness doesn't really apply), and the room.

bard Diary Entry bard 2003

Gargantua answered, that he had taken such a course for that himself, that in all the country there was not to be found a cleanlier boy than he.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Gargantua answered, that he had taken such a course for that himself, that in all the country there was not to be found a cleanlier boy than he.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

(We Persians have cleanlier ways of consulting heaven.)

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

Our honey also is taken and reputed to be the best, because it is harder, better wrought, and cleanlier vesselled up, than that which cometh from beyond the sea, where they stamp and strain their combs, bees, and young blowings altogether into the stuff, as I have been informed.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

They may be wealthier, but they will not be cleanlier.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various

Her hair she kept cut close, partly because it was a cleanlier fashion, and partly because it was less trouble to look after.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

Even a herd of swine, eating the acorns under those magnificent oaks of Blenheim, would be cleanlier and of better habits than ordinary swine.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various

In their surroundings the natives exhibit all the squalor and dirt of China, with none of the cleanlier qualities of the people of Japan.

In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

Past the familiar groups of grave, white-robed men solemnly washing themselves, then scooping up and drinking the noisome fluid; past their ladies squatting like frogs by the river-side, washing away at clothes which never seem a whit the cleanlier for all their talk and trouble.

A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne