spruceness
Example Sentences
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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
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
The men's words, uttered on one side in irritated languor and on the other with empty spruceness, had suddenly lifted her to the threshold of life.
From The Judge by Rebecca West
Simon had that air of absolute spruceness and freshness which in persons who have stayed at home is so extremely offensive to persons who have just arrived exhausted and unclean from a tiresome journey.
From Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes by Arnold Bennett
In its respectable regularity, its order and spruceness, it gave an impression of sardonic horror; for never can the search for love have been so systematised and ordered.
From The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
