By this time the four giants had carefully scrubbed their legs and jumped into the press.

He took a moment to groom himself in his private cabin, making certain that his formal suit was impeccably clean, every steel-gray hair in place, his manicured hands carefully scrubbed.

Its chairman, Timothy Shriver, has suggested that doing so was audacious or even reckless, given the Farrellys' reputation, but in truth the movie was carefully scrubbed.

The pond must be carefully scrubbed and rinsed several times before putting the fish back.

Blue-shifted light and the relentless shimmer of the shields had been carefully scrubbed away.

And beyond that was another one-this victim picked apart, the bones carefully scrubbed of all the flesh, cleaned, resting carefully on the floor.

The book was the opposite of the usual campaign volume written by ghostwriters and carefully scrubbed to send coded messages to the base while blandly reassuring a broader public.

He had carefully scrubbed the nails of his left hand and was just commencing on his right when he noticed what he was doing.

The carefully scrubbed net bag folded neatly on the bread barge and with a metal tally stamped'8'fixed to it was the 'kettle mess',the improbably named object in which all hot food was cooked, because boiling in the galley's copper kettles was the only way it could be done.

The Chosen had scrubbed the bark carefully with herbal salves and plucked the damaged leaves, hoping against reason that the disease could be contained, knowing all the while that it could not.