sprucely
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Most of his poems are sprucely rhymed and metered; yet his themes are decline, loss, things not working out.
From Time Magazine Archive
As he left, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, sprucely pink, walked into the committee room.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the mechanism had descended George V stepped sprucely forth, but slowly, wearily, and advanced into the Great Drawing Room.
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
Mr. Hagan had the appearance of one into whose lap the horn of plenty has not been recently or generously tilted, and the clothes he wore, though sprucely tailored, were of another season's fashion.
From The Tyranny of Weakness by Paul Stahr
