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When the mechanism had descended George V stepped sprucely forth, but slowly, wearily, and advanced into the Great Drawing Room.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
“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
It was Allard who revived the etiquette of going to battle dressed as sprucely as for a wedding.
From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Edmund Gosse
