"Spruceness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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 ...
— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham
... 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. With a feeling akin to princely pride we stepped in, the driver cracked his whip, and, amid the bows of the inn household, we went off up the street. Barring the loss of an umbrella, which had happened somewhere between the time we boarded the ...
— Noto, An Unexplored Corner of Japan • Percival Lowell
... by Brixton Town Hall and directed the man to drive to Prince's Gate. 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. But the manner in which the taxi-driver looked him up and down penetrated through the veil of abstraction which hitherto had rendered Kerry impervious to ...
— Dope • Sax Rohmer |
