choiceness

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Photography is indiscriminate; human art is selective, and is precious as it evinces and secures a choiceness in selection.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I by Barrington, Mrs. Russell

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

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.

Beddoes' genius was essentially lyrical: he had imagination, the gift of style, the mastery of rhythm, a strange choiceness and curiosity of phrase.

From Figures of Several Centuries by Symons, Arthur

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