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

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

Neat he was to spruceness, and while of no more than medium height he had the shoulders of an acrobat.

From Tales of Chinatown by Rohmer, Sax

Betimes the next morning the basha appeared, both driver and guard got up in a fine dark-green uniform, a spruceness it much tickled our vanity to mark.

From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Lowell, Percival

Cleanliness and spruceness are the rule among the Quincy Market men and stall-keepers.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various