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
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
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 John Ruskin
A new, a surprising spruceness had laid hold of him.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
