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If one may judge of the selectness of the company by their conversation'— 'You'll see no more of the company,' said Mr. Falkirk; 'they are going another way, and we have to wait here.

From Wych Hazel by Warner, Susan

A small one: selectness is the type of cordiality.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

The "Hotel Soledad" asserted its selectness by the announcement: "En este hotel no se admiten compañías de cómicos ni toreros," but the solitude of its wooden-floored beds at least was distinctly broken and often.

From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Franck, Harry Alverson

Next in importance to the bronzes, we esteem the collection of Sicilian, or Gr�co-Sicilian vases, though inferior in number and selectness to those of the Vatican, or Museo-Borbonico.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various

The company was not numerous; it was rather remarkable for its selectness.

From Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century by Ware, William