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Updated: June 4, 2025
Sidney Dale out to dinner at the house of a common friend in New York. In the course of conversation I remarked, "I believe it is you, Mrs. Dale, who is responsible for the metamorphosis in my friend, Morgan Russell." "Is he a friend of yours?" "An old friend since college days. I never saw any one so spruced up, shall I call it?
Bob never had any poetry in his soul no romance, as you might say. He was what you might call a plodder you might call him that. Get up, my nag, get up. There's the old Harkness place seems to be spruced up considerable. Folks used to say if ye wanted to see how the world looked the morning after the flood just go into George Harkness's barn-yard on a rainy day.
"The first time I saw her I went clean, stark, raving, blind, drunken daft over her. I tried to argue and reason myself out of it, but it was no go. I didn't even know who she was then. "But I was in love and, being so, wasn't hardly safe on the road. "Then I spruced up and started in to see if I couldn't interest her in me half as much as I was interested in her.
There had never been anything suggestive of the natty or agile about him when he had been a scout, and army life, contrary to its reputation, had not spruced and straightened him up at all. He was about as awkward looking as a piece of field artillery, and he was just about as reliable and effective.
It seems to me you've spruced up mightily since the last time you came to the Bourg. What linen, what clothes! What department are you in?" "I am professor of massage," said Aristide gravely. "You a professor!" she exclaimed, with respectful amazement; but she dared not ask him what he taught, and Cabassu, somewhat embarrassed by her questions, hastened to change the subject.
"Hello, Sonora!" returned the Girl with an amused smile, for it was impossible with her keen sense of humour not to see Sonora's attempts to make himself irresistible to her. Nor did she fail to observe that Trinidad, likewise, had spruced himself up a little more than usual, with the same purpose in mind. "Hello, Girl!" he said, strolling up to her with a ludicrous swagger.
FATHER At first in working clothes; afterwards a bit spruced up; cap and gloves for first entrance. MOTHER At first in working clothes and apron; better clothes for the third scene. WALTER A boy; at first outdoor clothes; indoor clothes underneath. GERTRUDE A girl, a little younger than Walter; at first outdoor clothes; indoor clothes underneath, different in the third scene.
Even Roxy expressed her pleasure in seeing "things kind of spruced up," and Merry's gentle treatment of the hard-working drudge won her heart entirely.
When I had bathed and spruced up, I went out with them on the street. We entered the bazaar. The whole market was crowded.
He wandered into a tobacconist's, and bought cigarettes which Julie's soul loved, and then he made for a theatre booking-office. Outside and his business done, he looked at his watch, and found he had a bit of time to spare. He walked down Shaftesbury Avenue, and thought he would get himself spruced up at a hairdresser's. He saw a little place with a foreigner at the door, and he went in.
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