sprucer

The sun that rose on the next day but one, had never beheld a sprucer personage on the outside of the Norwood stage, than Mr. Watkins Tottle; and when the coach drew up before a cardboard – looking house with disguised chimneys, and a lawn like a large sheet of green letter – paper, he certainly had never lighted to his place of destination a gentleman who felt more uncomfortable.

Sketches by Boz 2007

And for this he would have to be a sprucer and more attractive man externally to match up with Marion.

A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

And for this he would have to be a sprucer and more attractive man externally to match up with Marion.

A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

In its whole constitution it had not a straight floor, and hardly a straight line; but it had outlasted, and clearly would yet outlast, many a better-trimmed building, many a sprucer publichouse.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

His sprucer, dark-haired adversary was also in jeans, but a snugly fitting pair of denims which looked smart and suitable with a

The Speaker Of Mandarin Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1983

We made ourselves a little sprucer than usual, as we wished to do credit to our own world; and M'Allister wore his overalls to protect his clothes, although our machinery was not nearly so messy to handle as steam-engines usually are.

To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story Mark Wicks

You have impelled grocers to ludicrous pitches of absurdity; you have driven the wife of a working-man to distraction because her neighbour's front room possesses a more expensive carpet, of a sprucer pattern than her own.

Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891 Various

The storekeeper, much sprucer in dress than heretofore, smiled and nodded to her over the bridge of his violin.

How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long

Day -- though younger and sprucer -- to be identified as Janice's father.

The Mission of Janice Day Helen Beecher Long

There was dear old Ralph, looking quite ordinary and matter-of-fact, only rather sprucer than usual in his brand-new wedding garments.

The Moon out of Reach Margaret Pedler