You lofty and dazzling towers, pinnacled, red as roses, burnish'd with gold!
Newness was part of an aura that the network skillfully burnished in its rise to global prominence.
The sun caught the lake through a cleft in the heights and it shone like burnished steel.
In both cases the vessels have a polished or burnished finish that may be indicative of a special ware.
Top left, shallow channelled ware ; top right, comb-impressed black burnished ware ; bottom left, red slipped ware ; bottom right, comb-impressed red burnished ware.
The replicas were each modeled in clay and refined through additional sculpting, and those with polished surfaces were burnished.
Even when crafted using very fine, smooth, porcelain clay, only a small percentage of tools with more delicate features survive the carving, thinning, and burnishing processes.
She hoped with all her heart that the women were out there, darkly burnished, biding their time, brass-metalling their nails, filing their incisors - but out there.
