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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
Cleanliness and spruceness are the rule among the Quincy Market men and stall-keepers.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various
Even her new spruceness was a comparatively recent manifestation.
From Coquette by Frank Swinnerton
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
