spruceness

Example Sentences

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The pleasure of his “Horseplay” comes principally from the spruceness of his rhythm and the way he makes each phrase feel brim full.

From New York Times • May 29, 2013

Simon had that air of absolute spruceness and freshness which in persons who have stayed at home is so extremely offensive to persons who have just arrived exhausted and unclean from a tiresome journey.

From Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes by Bennett, Arnold

The smooth paving-stones; the scraped, hard, even, rutless roads; the neat gates and plates, and essence of border and order, and spikiness and spruceness.

From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by Ruskin, John

Some of the gentlemen celebrated the occasion by an unusual spruceness of attire, and others by being sober enough to attend to business.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

The spruceness had left him; all the color, too, had gone from his face, which was now sickly white—an evil face with its sandy mustache streaked with gray and its lusterless green eyes.

From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton