choiceness
Example Sentences
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Among a people who, perhaps unjustly, have been prided for the choiceness of their swearing, the favourite growth and very spoilt-child of animosity is the word of an exceedingly forcible kind.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman
The words chosen do not merely render the subject with fluency and fitness; they attain a choiceness and exaltation of expression, which give to the writing much of the character of the designs.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne
It is by the design more than anything else that the date of manufacture is fixed, determining the choiceness of the piece, and the money it should bring.
From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Mary H. Northend
His effects are produced by the freshness rather than the choiceness of his terms, and by his truth to nature and good taste.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell
The invitation was accepted, and the two sat down to a most sumptuous repast, the delicacy of the viands being only surpassed by the choiceness of the wine.
From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville
