Verb (used with object) : Spruce up the children before the company comes. From Dictionary.com.
One tall, good-looking, sprucely dressed fellow impressed me. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
He was so sprucely dressed that she asked him if he were going out. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
Mr. James Dane was a quiet-looking, sprucely-dressed man of over forty years of age. From Wordnik.com. [The Carved Cupboard] Reference
He had attired himself most sprucely; he rode a good horse, and he gave it every chance to show its quality. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
She coily biting the lip, and brideling her head, as if she had bene some mans best Gelding, sprucely thus replyed. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
And not only were there flowers here, and little shrubs planted sprucely, but also good grass, which is always softness, and soothes the impatient eyes of men. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
‘Ah! Hawk,’ said one very sprucely – dressed personage in a Newmarket coat, a choice neckerchief, and all other accessories of the most unexceptionable kind. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas Nickleby] Reference
And we used to think him such a sprucely-got-up man. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-Two Stories For Girls] Reference
Farrell sat beside him, sprucely dressed but woebegone. From Wordnik.com. [Foe-Farrell] Reference
Yes -- you hope to read this out some day, got up sprucely with. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference
While a watch-chain dangles sprucely from the proper buttonhole. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions]
He was sprucely shaved and what little hair he had was carefully trimmed. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Avonlea] Reference
Herbert, with a glance at James, who was sprucely dressed and wore a flower in his buttonhole. From Wordnik.com. [Herbert Carter's Legacy] Reference
It was Allard who revived the etiquette of going to battle dressed as sprucely as for a wedding. From Wordnik.com. [Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France] Reference
He addressed himself to a rather sprucely dressed man of thirty-five whom he met at the door of the bank. From Wordnik.com. [Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune] Reference
James I., but was refused admittance into the royal closet by a sprucely-dressed countryman of the king's. From Wordnik.com. [The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings] Reference
This favored guest was a little man, very sprucely and neatly dressed, and oppressively polite in his manner. From Wordnik.com. [After Dark] Reference
We will select a sprucely dressed gentleman who has just been anointed in a barber's shop and accompany him to his home. From Wordnik.com. [A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life] Reference
The bridegroom was a well looking young man, as clean and sprucely dressed as his bride, though not with such emblematic purity. From Wordnik.com. [A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue] Reference
He was going to a party at Crofton's, and had already dressed himself as sprucely as the resources of Torrentville would permit. From Wordnik.com. [Down The River Buck Bradford and His Tyrants] Reference
Instead of the orderly, sprucely-dressed groups of people which were wont to linger in greetings before the doors of St. John's. From Wordnik.com. [The Inside of the Cup — Complete] Reference
I heard the name of Gresson, and turned to find a fellow of about thirty-five, rather sprucely dressed, with a flower in his buttonhole. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Standfast] Reference
His grey hair was brushed sprucely up on each side of his head, the ends of the locks forming a supplementary pair of ears above the crown. From Wordnik.com. [Fan : the story of a young girl's life] Reference
"How are you, Mrs. Tod?" as a comely, middle-aged body appeared at the right-hand doorway, dressed sprucely in one of those things Jael called. From Wordnik.com. [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference
"Hulloa, Alf! what brings you here?" said a young exquisite, slapping the shoulder of a sprucely-dressed young man, who was examining Adolph through an eye-glass. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Tom's Cabin] Reference
As the chaise drew nearer, he perceived that Tackleton was dressed out sprucely for his marriage, and that he had decorated his horse's head with flowers and favours. From Wordnik.com. [The Cricket on the Hearth] Reference
Oliver, as his custom was, had attired himself sprucely for a visit to acquaintances, and a silk hat of the very newest fashion lay together with his gloves upon the table. From Wordnik.com. [Born in Exile] Reference
A part of the grounds which was not so sprucely groomed as the rest. From Wordnik.com. [Bat Wing] Reference
How sprucely WE are dressed out, you and I! '"we who are so inferior to that divine poet; but. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference
How sprucely we are dressed out, you and I!. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference
He was quite sprucely dressed in store clothes. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman from Outside [on Swan River]] Reference
So swiftly, sprucely, cheerily. From Wordnik.com. [Celtic Fairy Tales] Reference
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