"Choiceness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and the Regent's steward brought in the wine from Byblos. Ani was much lauded for the wonderful choiceness ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... bombastic. Emerson says somewhere, "Avoid adjectives; let your nouns do the work." There was hardly a sentence in Alison which did not traverse this rule. One of his admirers told me that the great merit of his style was his choiceness and aptness in his use of adjectives. It is a style which now provokes merriment, and even had Alison been learned and impartial, and had he possessed a good method, his style for the present taste would have killed his book. Gibbon is sometimes called pompous, but place ...
— Historical Essays • James Ford Rhodes |
