All the mining exhibits-in their Selectness and profusion-gave evidence of the inexhaustible wealth yet stored up for man's future uses notwithstanding the geological fact, that the earth's crust has no great profundity compared with its diameter.
"By Water to the Columbian Exposition"
Johanna S. Wisthaler
A little spurt there was, back towards his own home,-just enough to give something of Selectness to the few who saw him fall,-and then he fell.
"The Eustace Diamonds"
Anthony Trollope
The outstanding characteristic of the new Society is to be its Selectness.
"Natural Law in the Spiritual World"
Henry Drummond