choiceness

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To some extent the success of a garden depends upon favourable conditions of sun, soil, and water, but more upon the choiceness of its contents, the skill of its planting, the lovingness of its tendence.

From Garden-Craft Old and New by Sedding, John D.

Hence arose, as that vast number of his books, so the choiceness and rarity of the greatest part of them, and that of all kinds, and in all sorts of learning.'

From The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by Roberts, W. (William)

It had such a finish, such a choiceness, such gentle dignity of execution.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

Beddoes' genius was essentially lyrical: he had imagination, the gift of style, the mastery of rhythm, a strange choiceness and curiosity of phrase.

From Figures of Several Centuries by Symons, Arthur

Photography is indiscriminate; human art is selective, and is precious as it evinces and secures a choiceness in selection.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I by Barrington, Mrs. Russell