pickedness

Of her one had the impression that if she lay down on her back she could not roll over without the aid of block-and-tackle; of Ahuna one's impression was that the tooth - pickedness of him would shatter to splinters if one bumped into him.

SHIN-BONES 2010

Of her one had the impression that if she lay down on her back she could not roll over without the aid of block-and-tackle; of Ahuna one's impression was that the tooth - pickedness of him would shatter to splinters if one bumped into him.

Shin-Bones 1919

-- There is nothing valiant or solid to be hoped for from such as are always kempt and perfumed, and every day smell of the tailor; the exceedingly curious that are wholly in mending such an imperfection in the face, in taking away the morphew in the neck, or bleaching their hands at midnight, gumming and bridling their beards, or making the waist small, binding it with hoops, while the mind runs at waste; too much pickedness is not manly.

Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems Ben Jonson 1605