There was a lack of Practicalness in such faith in another man as expressed itself in the wistful, hesitant voice.
""Seth""
Frances Hodgson Burnett
From his boyhood up he lived in direct and vigorous contact with men and things, not as in older States and easier conditions with words and theories; and both his moral convictions and his intellectual pinions gathered from that contact a supreme degree of that character by which men knew him, that character which is the most distinctive possession of the best American nature, that almost indescribable quality which we call in general clearness or truth, and which appears in the physical structure as health, in the moral constitution as honesty, in the mental structure as sagacity, and in the region of active life as Practicalness.
"Addresses"
Phillips Brooks
Goshmeelee, with her immense Practicalness, instantly produced from her mouth the washing apparatus dreaded by her cubs, and began to lick the injured spot.
"Dusty Star"
Olaf Baker