sawdusting

Spartan vessel at the pump, the sweeping and sawdusting of the common room, and other such preparations.

Little Dorrit 2007

Versailles and sawdusting the Tuileries; they're purging the aristocratic guts of France; they're starting for the world a reformation which will make it clean.

No Defense, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

Versailles and sawdusting the Tuileries; they're purging the aristocratic guts of France; they're starting for the world a reformation which will make it clean.

No Defense, Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897

Versailles and sawdusting the Tuileries; they're purging the aristocratic guts of France; they're starting for the world a reformation which will make it clean.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

Arthur Clennam would have been little disposed to linger in bed, though his bed had been in a more private situation, and less affected by the raking out of yesterday's fire, the kindling of to-day's under the collegiate boiler, the filling of that Spartan vessel at the pump, the sweeping and sawdusting of the common room, and other such preparations.

Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841