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  • The dust from that tortuous road rose in an earth adhering cloud from out which honest, clean-souled men came like pain-distorted spectres, wearing grey tear stained masks with pink-rimmed eyeholes and mud edged mouths.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • Would to Heaven that all my knights were as clean-souled and as single-minded in devotion unto me as thou art.

    King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Henry Gilbert

  • The gutter gamin and the brutal lout who never owned a soul fit to rise above the level of the kettle singing on the hearth may brand the name of Steyn and his stout burghers with infamy; but the clean-souled people of the Motherland, the people from whose ranks our greatest fighters and thinkers spring, will not endorse that cry.

    Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales

  • Which opinion did credit to the clean-souled fellows who uttered it, and a glaring injustice to the cunning knaves who had caused such a fearful commotion amongst them.

    Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan

  • Yet it can be told that John Schuyler came from a long line of clean-bodied, clean-souled, clear-eyed, clear-headed ancestors; and from these he had inherited cleanness of body and of soul, clearness of eye and of head.

    A Fool There Was Porter Emerson Browne

  • It was unfit that so clean-souled and upright a man should be involved in the tangle of lies and deceit and tragedy that she and

    Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley

  • He was a capital young fellow, handsome, clean-souled, and whole-hearted.

    Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920

  • For you, dear clean-souled girl that you are, were born that you might be the wife of a strong man and the mother of his sturdy children.

    The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Dawn's judgments were remorseless, as becoming clean-souled, fearless youth as yet unacquainted with the great gulf 'twixt the ideal and real, and untainted by that charity and complaisance which, like senility, come with advancing years.

    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

  • Sinks, full of a superb dignity to the end, and one asks oneself -- "What _can_ the scheme of creation be that gives a creature so clean-souled, so grand, into the power of such a miserable mass of vile lusts as man?"

    Five Nights Victoria Cross 1910

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