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To do Dinah justice, she had, at irregular periods, paroxysms of reformation and arrangement, which she called "clarin'-up times," when she would begin with great zeal and turn every drawer and closet wrong side outward on to the floor or tables, and make the ordinary confusion sevenfold more confounded.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) Various 1887

Indeed, these periodic seasons were often an inconvenience to the whole household, for Dinah would contract such an immoderate attachment to her scoured tin as to insist upon it that it shouldn't be used again for any possible purpose, -- at least till the ardor of the "clarin'-up" period abated.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) Various 1887

Then she would light her pipe and leisurely go over her arrangements, looking things over and discoursing upon them; making all the young fry scour most vigorously on the tin things, and keeping up for several hours a most energetic state of confusion, which she would explain to the satisfaction of all inquirers by the remark that she was a "clarin'-up."

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) Various 1887

If it does not appear, go to clarin. com … and scroll down until you see the photo of a guy in a blury picture with a guitar.

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Overhead, Patience was having a "clarin 'up scrape" in her particular corner of the big garret, to the tune of "There's a Good Time Coming."

The S. W. F. Club Caroline E. Jacobs

One day, in her "clarin-up time," Lizzie came across a bundle containing a Sunday suit, placed in her cabin when Tom left for the

A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland

An 'so he sot his hands to wuk a-clarin' timber-patches,

De Fust Banjo 1919

Lucy gave up arguing on these grounds, but privately determined that when the honeymoon was over she would have a grand 'clarin up' time like Dinah in _Uncle Tom's Cabin_.

The Bishop's Secret Fergus Hume 1895

One day, in her “clarin-up time,” Lizzie came across a bundle containing a Sunday suit, placed in her cabin when Tom left for the North, which she took occasion to have a good quarrel over.

A Woman's Life-Work Haviland, Laura S 1881

He had painted gourds filled with pebbles that rattled when they were shaken; the long _clarin_ of the Mexicans, into which the performer does not blow, but through which he inhales the air; the harsh _ture_ of the

The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1877