Sentence example with the word 'furbished'

furbished

buffed, finished, glassy, gleaming, lacquered, rubbed, shellacked, silken, sleek, varnished

Last update: August 10, 2015


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She wore an odd little vizored cap of white leghorn, which may either have been the latest thing in children's hats, or some bit of ancient finery furbished up for the occasion.   [Please select]

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To look at the matter in this light simplified his own case and surprisingly furbished up all the dim domestic virtues.   [Please select]

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Jupiter sent off his thunderbolt to a noted coppersmith to have it furbished up for the direful occasion.   [Please select]

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Harness was to be repaired and furbished up, the big carriage and the old phaeton were to be put in order, and Master Ughtred's cart was to be given new paint and springs.   [Please select]

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As he sat musing, his pretence at cynicism fell from him, together with something of his furbished air of youth.   [Please select]

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"Why, mainly for comfort," I answered; "and while I am wearing them I am having my uniform, such as it is, furbished up and cleaned a bit."   [Please select]

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Clary was a prophet: he came on a visit to his cousin the Justice, and was struck with tall, red and white, and large-eyed Clary; he furbished up an introduction, and offered her the most marked attention.   [Please select]

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We furbished up our French and German, our knowledge of books and pictures and plays--_successful_ books and pictures and plays.   [Please select]

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Colonel Bishop could not be expected to recognize at a glance in these upright, furbished, soldierly figures the ragged, unkempt scarecrows that but yesterday had been toiling in his plantations.   [Please select]

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