sprucely
Example Sentences
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When the mechanism had descended George V stepped sprucely forth, but slowly, wearily, and advanced into the Great Drawing Room.
From Time Magazine Archive
As he left, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, sprucely pink, walked into the committee room.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most of his poems are sprucely rhymed and metered; yet his themes are decline, loss, things not working out.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Absolutely nothing, sir I” Colonel Cathcart responded sprucely, wincing in extreme pain and gingerly rubbing the spot where Colonel Korn had just jabbed him again.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
The hearse was a cheap charity affair, furnished by the Maire of the arrondissement, though it was sprucely painted and decked with funeral cloth.
From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by George Alfred Townsend
