Wonder of wonders, Nedare Satarov's brown woolen dress was neat, clean and well cut, and her common-room floor was freshly swept.
Despite the emptiness, the tables are clean and the stone floor has been freshly swept.
The sitting room was freshly swept.
A day after the Chicago Cubs played their way back into lovable loser status, the streets around Wrigleyville were freshly swept, and a tired city went back to work, ball caps tucked into closets, people carrying on as always, speaking little of what had transpired the night before.
Despite the decrepitude of the outside, inside the rooms seemed dry and clean, as if they had been freshly swept.
Everything was in its place and order as he had always kept it, the little fire was newly trimmed, and the hearth was freshly swept.
Rama noticed that the aangan had been freshly swept with a thrash broom, judging by the faint parallel lines in the flat ground.
The hearth was freshly swept, and a fire laid, but the room was cold; clearly no one had been here recently.
I went on hurriedly, "I did see the streets were freshly swept.