He was indefatigable, in war as in peace, in parading and inspecting; the weary and starving soldiers were forced to turn out amid the marshes of the Dobrudscha as spick and span as on the parade grounds of St Petersburg; but he could do nothing to set order in the confusion of the commissariat, which caused the troops to die like flies of dysentery and scurvy; or to remedy the scandals of the hospitals, which inflicted on the wounded unspeakable sufferings. [Please select]
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Fischer was dressed with his usual spick-and-span neatness, and his appearance betrayed no sign of flurry or excitement. [Please select]
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When Austen, in response to the doctor's telephone message, stood over the iron bed in the spick-and-span men's ward of St. [Please select]
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Johnny smoothed it down and brushed it carefully and tried to make himself look as spick and span as he knew how. [Please select]
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At five o'clock President de la Barra, very smiling and spick and span, arrived, accompanied by his staff.' [Please select]
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Arrived at home, it gave her no comfort to find Charles Conquest--the most spick and span of middle-aged New-Yorkers--waiting in the drawing-room. [Please select]
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He looked very handsome as he lounged in, dressed spick and span in full uniform for church parade. [Please select]
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And she, poised on a chair, her dainty ankles showing, looked spick and span also in a pretty new dress. [Please select]
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"I wouldn't want to make it look like a gardener's garden, all clipped an' spick an' span, would you." [Please select]
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The room where Jane had been ill was re-papered and painted, the place looked spick-and-span and beautiful, and Mrs. [Please select]
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There is considerable truth in the suggestion that the coagulating room and machine room should be as "spick and span" as a modern home dairy. [Please select]
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