choiceness

Example Sentences

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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

It is by the design more than anything else that the date of manufacture is fixed, determining the choiceness of the piece, and the money it should bring.

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

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.

Its choiceness was great, but was not duly guarded.

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake

But English luxury, which at first allured me by its choiceness and delicacy, proved to be mechanical also.

From The Lily of the Valley by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott