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
Philip reddened, feeling his own spruceness an intolerable reproach; for of late he had begun to pay some attention to his toilet, and he had come out from England with a pretty selection of ties.
From Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
The spruceness had left him; all the color, too, had gone from his face, which was now sickly white—an evil face with its sandy mustache streaked with gray and its lusterless green eyes.
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
Some of the gentlemen celebrated the occasion by an unusual spruceness of attire, and others by being sober enough to attend to business.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Cleanliness and spruceness are the rule among the Quincy Market men and stall-keepers.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various
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