"Furbish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as they seem," said Betty. "Ancient philosophers said things like them centuries ago, but people did not believe them. We are just beginning to drag them out of the dust and furbish them up and pretend they are ours, just as people rub up and adorn themselves with jewels dug out ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... the night before, he lost no time in committing himself to the final resolve. Zachariah was despatched with instructions to lay in the necessary supplies, while two women were engaged to sweep, scrub and furbish up the long uninhabited house. He had decided to move ...
— Viola Gwyn • George Barr McCutcheon
... much," muttered McShane; "the infernal scoundrel! I suspect that you will find him where you are going to, Mr Furbish, he's got ...
— The Poacher - Joseph Rushbrook • Frederick Marryat
... their Travels, and Stay-at-Home Words," which his unexpected death cut short. In the afternoon of the day on which he died, as he was coming back home from the Louvre in a tram-car, he took out of his pocket a volume of Virgil, and read it the whole way. "I furbish up my Latin and Greek when on a steamer or in omnibuses," he said to me; "it prevents my being annoyed by the ...
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton • Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al
... their wild haunts,—partly thinking their Athenian honour was as a garden flower; and partly being always fed away from them, among the hills, by flowers which I could see nowhere else. With all excuse I can furbish up, however, it is shameful that the truth of the matter never struck me before, or at least this ...
— Proserpina, Volume 2 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin |
