choiceness

Example Sentences

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At dinner he ate without noticing the choiceness of the cooking, and he drank several glasses of champagne before he remarked the excellence of the wine.

From Mike Fletcher A Novel by Moore, George (George Augustus)

It had such a finish, such a choiceness, such gentle dignity of execution.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

"Real" enough the fare is, in all conscience; but, as usual with realities of that sort, it wants choiceness.

From Change in the Village by Sturt, George

"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

On the previous undetermined days, Pierre had solicitously sought to disguise his emotions from his mother, by a certain carefulness and choiceness in his dress.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman