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
In its respectable regularity, its order and spruceness, it gave an impression of sardonic horror; for never can the search for love have been so systematised and ordered.
From The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
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 Percival Lowell
A new, a surprising spruceness had laid hold of him.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
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 Sax Rohmer
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