nicety

• Mrs. Pennypoker was attired with all her wonted nicety, and her prim black straw bonnet and decorous gloves formed a striking contrast to the plain rough-and-ready gowns and broad hats of the other matrons, who were more accustomed to the needs of the life before them. —  In Blue Creek Cañon
• This chimed in with my plans to a nicety, and I at once set about getting up the expedition. —  The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
• Others suffer from love of change; disloyal to the old friend which fitted their hand to a nicety, they discard it for the passing attractions of some newly-advertised pattern It is distressing to watch the efforts of the right man with the wrong rod, or vice versa. With man and rod in harmony the latter does the real work; unfitted to each other, the power of man and rod is alike at its worst. —  Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
• No engineer could calculate with greater nicety, and no set of men work together with such combination of force. —  Olla Podrida
• The pirates had somehow managed to get the range to a nicety, and every shot had come aboard. —  A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas

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