1 Three days' reddish beard fringed his jaws and every two or three minutes a mist gathered on his glasses so that he had to take them off and polish them with his pocket-handkerchief.
2 Going down the stairs his glasses became so dimmed with moisture that he had to take them off and polish them.
3 At this Farrington told the boys to polish off that and have another.
4 He said it had been his experience that when women gave surprise parties they usually gave them on the very nights men had decided to polish and clean all the guns in the house.
5 If the air of Munro was more commanding and manly, it wanted both the ease and insinuating polish of that of the Frenchman.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 16 6 She had to wash the cups every morning, and polish up the old-fashioned spoons, the fat silver teapot, and the glasses till they shone.
7 You see, never has it fallen to my lot to acquire the brilliant polish which is, so to speak, manifest in your every movement.
8 It was a new carriage, shiny with varnish, and the harness was new too, with bits of polished brass here and there.
9 Usually, the more he drank, the more polished became his manners.
10 He was not drinking as he had formerly, becoming increasingly more polished and biting as the liquor took hold of him, saying amusing, malicious things that made her laugh in spite of herself.
11 Rosedale still stood before her in an expectant attitude, and she continued to face him in silence, her glance just level with his polished baldness.
12 It was as brilliantly polished as the one below, but here at least she could burn a few papers with less risk of incurring her aunt's disapproval.
13 His black shoes were blunt and not well polished.
14 The high light was a polished copper pot filled with primroses.
15 Along the drive below her swept barouches, with a mechanical tlot-tlot, tlot-tlot, tlot-tlot, and great cars with polished black hoods and engines quiet as the sigh of an old man.