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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
Some of the gentlemen celebrated the occasion by an unusual spruceness of attire, and others by being sober enough to attend to business.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In the meantime all that nastiness seems absolute spruceness, that stench a perfume, and that miserable slavery a kingdom, and such too as they would not change their tyranny for Phalaris' or Dionysius' empire.
From The Praise of Folly by John Wilson
To the curious glances of certain of his neighbors who had never before seen the Chief Inspector otherwise than a model of cleanliness and spruceness he was indifferent.
From Dope by Sax Rohmer
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 Edward Eggleston
