choiceness

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Especially, if we consider the choiceness of the authors out of which they are furnished.

From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Arber, Thomas Seccombe, Professor

To some extent the success of a garden depends upon favourable conditions of sun, soil, and water, but more upon the choiceness of its contents, the skill of its planting, the lovingness of its tendence.

From Garden-Craft Old and New by Sedding, John D.

My dear master, you might know by the choiceness of the timber, and the superiority of the workmanship, that a masterpiece such as this is a thing for a Prince-Bishop's cellar alone.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm

Its choiceness was great, but was not duly guarded.

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake

"For he was wont to say," thus runs the passage, "that whatever might be accomplished by the wit of man with a certain choiceness, that indeed was next to the divine."

From Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett by Hewlett, Maurice Henry