Let us now start to blow away the cobwebs of bygone years and hand on our democratic system to our children, bright and burnished.
Unnecessary scrubbing, burnishing, blancoing and polishing have been forbidden and unit administration has been reviewed to cut out waste of time.
Even our old friends co-ordination and integration are dragged out, burnished up and produced again for our contemplation.
Typically, this ware had a pattern burnish on a red, grey or light brown surface, and it was applied to goblets with tall narrow stems or conical pedestal bases.
The degree of burnish visible is obviously related to post-depositional processes.
He evidently considered that all pottery of that period was intended to be reduced black or grey, and thought that black burnished were actually coated with bitumen.
His comb is redder than coral, his bill black as jet, his claws whiter than the lily, his legs azure, and his body like burnished gold.
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.
