Carefully, she began to wipe away the dried blood and to clean around the cuts.

But the hoof came up, at last, and she cleaned around the frog with her pick.

They started to clean the thicket around the church and renovated the building in 1740.

Once Joshua was gone, she began to clean the area around the wound.

"We'll clean around him," the older woman announced, and they went about their business.

All the while I had avoided cleaning around the easel.

The next morning he came in as I was cleaning around the jewelry box.

She began to clean around the wound and apply a salve to it.

We proposed ways to clean the air, the water and the land around us.

Would you not allow a maid to just clean around your books?