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
Unseeming spruceness th' old man discommends, And in old men, only to live, offends.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
A new, a surprising spruceness had laid hold of him.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
The smooth paving-stones; the scraped, hard, even, rutless roads; the neat gates and plates, and essence of border and order, and spikiness and spruceness.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin
He came early in the evening, with his usual air of determination and a somewhat unusual spruceness.
From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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