But Karen herself was cleanly and nicely dressed; she must learn to read and sew; and people said she was a nice little thing, but the looking-glass said: " Thou art more than nice, thou art beautiful! "
" Chopped jelly used as a decoration must be very clear and be chopped cleanly with a wet knife on wet grease-proof paper so that the light is refracted from the cut surfaces, as from the facets of a jewel."
And since small firms are so vital, one of the measures of economic health in the euro area is how cleanly the interest rates set by the European Central Bank (ECB) feed through to the rates that firms pay.
The bridge was fewer than ten years old, and the best experts were at a loss to explain why it had snapped cleanly in two, sending a dozen cars into the watery depths of the river below.
That's the tricky process by which chocolate is heated, and then cooled, and then heated again before solidifying to form a smooth, shiny product that snaps cleanly and melts in your mouth.
Massive forces from the ship chaotically whipping through the ocean at such speed help explain why the stern is so badly damaged while the hydrodynamic bow sliced cleanly through the water and remained largely intact.
Yeah, often times, sometimes there's something that we like in the books that doesn't translate cleanly to a modern day movie, and we find another way to interpret it.
And it raises an important issue: English verb forms, sometimes called " tenses" in grammar books, do not always cleanly line up with exact points in time.