choiceness
Example Sentences
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Hence arose, as that vast number of his books, so the choiceness and rarity of the greatest part of them, and that of all kinds, and in all sorts of learning.'
From The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by W. (William) Roberts
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 Mary H. Northend
The dinner was one of those which are given nowhere but in Paris by these great female spendthrifts, for the choiceness of their preparations often surprise the most fastidious of guests.
From Beatrix by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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 Herman Melville
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 Charles Thomas Cruttwell
