choiceness

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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 Cruttwell, Charles Thomas

"Real" enough the fare is, in all conscience; but, as usual with realities of that sort, it wants choiceness.

From Change in the Village by Sturt, George

"For he was wont to say," thus runs the passage, "that whatever might be accomplished by the wit of man with a certain choiceness, that indeed was next to the divine."

From Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Bohemian, 195, 197-199, 204. bonbon dishes, 200. bottles, 203, 205-209. bowls, 203, 204. cameo incrusted, 199. choiceness determined, 103. colored, 197, 201. cutting of, 198. decanters, 200, 201, 202. drinking, 201.

From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Northend, Mary H.

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