These areas had been touched, tagged on the four-sided chart inside his personal ledger, then washed clean of ink and forgotten.

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He resolved to build the ark, to inspire children with the biblical story of how Noah and the inhabitants of his Ark survived the flood that, according to Old Testament, washed the world clean of sin.

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He crossed the stream, picked a double handful, washed the muddy roots clean in the current and then sat down again beside his pack and ate the clean, cool green leaves and the crisp, peppery-tasting stalks.

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The clean face is washed.

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It comprised a cot bed in a clean, white-washed cell up under the eves and adjacent to a big balcony that looked out onto the street and across the city's dark tempestuous night.

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Finally, make sure you are well-scrubbed, your nails are clean and your hair is washed.

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When the young man jumps to the conclusion that either the sooty face or the clean face will exclusively be washed he is betraying an overreliance on modern thinking.

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But after the sport had washed its dirty laundry in public, it was declared "almost clean" by UCI president Hein Verbruggen, .

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We learned a bit of history, such as how the city washed two million pounds of soil that had been contaminated by industry and that are now clean lots for the Olympic venues.

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