sprucely
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As he left, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, sprucely pink, walked into the committee room.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the mechanism had descended George V stepped sprucely forth, but slowly, wearily, and advanced into the Great Drawing Room.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most of his poems are sprucely rhymed and metered; yet his themes are decline, loss, things not working out.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Absolutely nothing, sir I” Colonel Cathcart responded sprucely, wincing in extreme pain and gingerly rubbing the spot where Colonel Korn had just jabbed him again.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Dr. Pond was at home to meet them when the cab drew up at the door, an elderly, good-natured man, white-haired and sprucely white- bearded.
From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Perceval Gibbon
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