choiceness

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His effects are produced by the freshness rather than the choiceness of his terms, and by his truth to nature and good taste.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas

In respect of literary and artistic merit, and a choiceness in contents which secures adaptation to the widest range of needs, these books are unrivalled.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 6, March, 1885 by Various

Among a people who, perhaps unjustly, have been prided for the choiceness of their swearing, the favourite growth and very spoilt-child of animosity is the word of an exceedingly forcible kind.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian

"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

Bohemian, 195, 197-199, 204. bonbon dishes, 200. bottles, 203, 205-209. bowls, 203, 204. cameo incrusted, 199. choiceness determined, 103. colored, 197, 201. cutting of, 198. decanters, 200, 201, 202. drinking, 201.

From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Northend, Mary H.