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

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 Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

Betimes the next morning the basha appeared, both driver and guard got up in a fine dark-green uniform, a spruceness it much tickled our vanity to mark.

From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Lowell, Percival

There was no spruceness of biweekly mowing about the lawn, no ambitious spick-and-spanness about the old, white, wooden, green-blinded cottage itself, but rather a restful mossiness of ancient respectability.

From The Faith Doctor A Story of New York by Eggleston, Edward

Even her new spruceness was a comparatively recent manifestation.

From Coquette by Swinnerton, Frank