clearing-up

So anyway, I thought a happy bouquet at the kitchen sink would liven up my evening clearing-up ritual.

Warm Fuzzy Wednesday « Looking for Roots 2009

The Nazis also used the word Aufklärung, meaning “enlightenment” or literally “clearing-up,” for the inculcation of useful thoughts in the German people.

Three Types of Civilized Societies « Isegoria 2008

This assembling and clearing-up of statements which are otherwise scattered rather perplexingly through the text under consideration will not, I hope, annoy such readers as have already grasped what I have summarized here.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

A struggle for sanity had to take place in the racial brain, a great casting-out of false assumptions, conventional distortions, hitherto uncriticized maxims and impossible “rights,” a great clearing-up of ideas about moral, material and biological relationships; it was a struggle that, as we shall see, involved the passing of three generations.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

Mrs. Bug dished the fricassee in huffy silence, but declined to join us at table, instead putting on her cloak and stamping out the front door, leaving us to deal with the clearing-up.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

Ah Sin — a Chinese laundryman who was also a great number of other diverting things — with a fair support and a happy-go-lucky presentation of frontier life, which included a supposed murder, a false accusation, and a general clearing-up of mystery by the pleasant and wily and useful and entertaining Ah

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

But the clearing-up of the mystery came long before the evening, and came in the form of a new and agonizing riddle.

The Idiot 2002

He wasn't sure why: maybe their defences were so shot they didn't bother putting up the usual screens; maybe they needed to talk to someone like they were a friend, not just part of the state's clearing-up machine, not just another aspect of this horrible process.

Not the End of the World Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1998

- The business plan submitted to the Minister will make provision that the activities of the DFB and its advisory bodies, as well as all current statutory intervention, will be terminated on September 30 1997, after which only clearing-up functions will take place.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

Dada said the people working for Mechem saw themselves as entrepeneurs out to make money from the clearing-up operation, and the communities wanted to find another company to do the work.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997