Crossword-Solution: SPRUCEST 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Crewe's sprucest employees was taking up the invitation cards like tickets,--a precaution to prevent the rowdy element from Ripton coming and eating up the refreshments.

Along thy sprucest bookshelves shine The works thou deemest most divine-- The Art of Cookery,[101] and mine, My Murray.

Would any one wish to see these remains tricked out in the sprucest, or even the richest, modern habiliments? Among ourselves in these islands we commonly prize and preserve (even in a leathern case) a highly preserved specimen of Tudor or Stuart binding; and there are instances where to exchange the old coat for a new one, however magnificent or (so to speak) appropriate, is not merely sacrilege, but absolute surrender of value.

The greenest of garden gates led you into the sprucest of little gardens; the box was neatly trimmed; never a blade of grass grew on the gravel; and although there were not many flowers, it did one’s heart good in early spring to see the blue and yellow crocuses, peeping through the dun earth, and the sweet-scented primrose discs, diamonded with dew, reclining on the delicate green of their tender leaves.