spruceness

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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

At least he learned the drill and the regulations and how to keep out of the guardhouse—except just after pay day; and his lank figure took on a certain military spruceness.

From Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls by Various

In the meantime all that nastiness seems absolute spruceness, that stench a perfume, and that miserable slavery a kingdom, and such too as they would not change their tyranny for Phalaris' or Dionysius' empire.

From The Praise of Folly by Wilson, John

Unseeming spruceness th' old man discommends, And in old men, only to live, offends.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

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