Both men were eager to strip clean the text of the prophesy in order to reveal, to themselves, the long awaited answer.

The sophistication which embroiders the will-to-live had been stripped clean off.

Any sooner than that and it would have been stripped clean.

It's been all stripped clean days ago, so I tell you.

It had been put up on blocks and stripped clean.

The nearby farms had been stripped clean days ago.

The beautiful, springlike countryside full of bright flowers and new grass was gone, stripped clean.

One instant the line strained, the next the hook came up stripped clean of bait.

I thought of Eric, a powerful vampire whose mind had been stripped clean of his identity.

The game center was stripped clean, and the following month it had become an all-night doughnut shop.

Later, when I return to the dormitory, Edward's bunk is stripped clean and his drawers are open, empty.

This, she sensed was man in a more primitive aspect, man with the conventional bark stripped clean off him.

The luscious and spooky graybrowns of gaslight chiaroscuro had been stripped clean off by the sharp razor of electricity.

This smiling countryside, teeming with one of the densest populations in the world, had been stripped clean of every inhabitant.

The annotated dumbbell was found later, and after that the walls were stripped clean of apparatus before the examinations began.

Dark yew trees and holly trees stand here and there; a yew is completely barked on one side, stripped clean.