Usa "burnish" in una frase
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1. endorsements, playing up to fans but not for the fans, not really, and highlight reels that burnish self-serving credentials, begs the question, how about the love for the game for its own sake that has (seemingly) become secondary to self-centered attitudes and inflated egos; where gamesmanship has superseded sportsmanship? Bizarre behavior, taunting and jeering an opponent, especially common in higher profiled sports, has (sadly) provided the modern athlete with a receptive audience
2. Energy and focus on the sublime ourselves, which still have time to care about what others say, burnish, with moral sense to purify their negative emotions and morbid psychology
3. causes the tool to rub or burnish instead of shearing off a nice chip
4. Yet, in saying this, I do but indirectly burnish a little brighter the noble merit of the poem and the poet
1. pinks and fire skies burnished with galleon gold,
2. full of chatter and conversation, lit by burnished brass
3. ” I bent and kissed the burnished cheek
4. His head, a burnished silver oval with holes for his artificial eyes but just a slit for a mouth, he guessed also had the same ergonomic efficiency
5. and carved and burnished and be-lackeyed that children were not allowed
6. The moonlight reflected from their burnished surfaces as he flexed them
7. was like the sole of a calf's foot, and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass
8. There was heat in his words; heat like burnished gold
9. The fierce assassins did not hesitate and engaged the standing villagers with their burnished blades
10. His reputation as an ace investigator would forever be burnished into his bosses’ minds and he likely would receive an award or promotion or both for his superb management of a sensitive and complex investigation
11. Horizontal shafts of golden sunlight light illuminated one side of the vast valley, leaving the other in sombre shadow apart from the tallest trees whose tops shone burnished gold
12. In his early thirties, he was about twenty centimetres taller than his visitors, perfectly proportioned, flawless skin like burnished blue-black ebony, wearing a short sleeveless tunic of a coarse material that barely reached mid thigh
13. Scarcely breathing, Antony stared vacantly at the sky and an ache filled Jag’s chest as he gazed on the handsome, hairless youth with skin that reflected the sunlight like burnished bronze
14. When Yasmela again drew the curtains, a Conan in burnished steel stood before his audience
15. A burnished mass of night-black hair set off the whiteness of her ivory body
16. Without a backward glance he rode toward the city, a supple, erect figure, gleaming in his burnished armor, his stolid, bearded henchmen jogging beside him
17. The high-piled burnished mass of hair that caught the torchlight in dull bronze gleams quivered slightly
18. In swift-moving scenes the pageant of his life passed fleetingly before his mental eye—a panorama wherein moved shadowy figures which were himself, in many guises and conditions—a skin-clad barbarian; a mercenary swordsman in horned helmet and scale-mail corselet; a corsair in a dragon-prowed galley that trailed a crimson wake of blood and pillage along southern coasts; a captain of hosts in burnished steel, on a rearing black charger; a king on a golden throne with the lion banner flowing above, and throngs of gay-hued courtiers and ladies on their knees
19. Guards were running through the garden, all converging toward the palace, where the clamor momentarily grew louder—tall men in burnished cuirasses and crested helmets of polished bronze
20. Before they reached it, a band of knights in burnished armor rode from among the trees, and their leader sternly ordered the travelers to halt
21. He pulled out a burnished wooden stool under and shoved it, almost hitting the trembling knees, to the stranger
22. Sprinkled with the burnished orange stars we’ve created
23. burnished by the moon
24. His cuirass was burnished to such a sheen that the 85
25. Underneath this, a pair of burnished gold hands (no
26. “No one is sending you away from us, we swear it,” Killian said, the light of the dorni turning his burnished hair a rich, red color
27. ” The club walls gave the effect of reality, but were metal illusions of bright gold, shiny silver, burnished copper, and polished to a sheen brass in the minimal light
28. He opened the door and my attention was brought to rest on a brightly burnished copper beaded gown
29. “But if you saw her Dalgleish! Her hair is red, the colour of burnished copper flecked with gold
30. scintillating burnished bronze skin
31. They drank coffee at a stall where the urns were burnished and little lamps burnt along the counter
32. Samson offered him one, as he knew a friend of his who had it would not refuse it to him, though it was more dingy with rust and mildew than bright and clean like burnished steel
33. He said in reply that they spoke the truth in every respect except as to the dagger, for it was not a dagger, nor little, but a burnished poniard sharper than an awl
34. Un demi setier! A jet of coffee steam from the burnished caldron
35. Old Russell with a smeared shammy rag burnished again his gem, turned it and held it at the point of his Moses' beard
36. In a very few minutes they heard the whistle of the locomotive as it drew out of the station, then, an instant before the engine itself came into sight round the bend, the brightly polished rails were illuminated, shining like burnished gold in the glare of its headlight; a few seconds afterwards the train emerged into view, gathering speed as it came along the short stretch of straight way, and a moment later it thundered across the bridge
37. The entire array, moreover, clad in burnished steel, and with plumage nodding over their bright morions, had a brilliancy of effect which no modern display can aspire to equal
38. ” He nodded at the water, burnished red-gold in the last rays of the sun
39. He liked the way the light poured in through the windows of the enormous sliding doors, the stacks of burnished shells on their racks, the hiss of steam in the radiators, the banging of locker doors, the intermingled scents of cedar and varnish and sweat
40. The last of these he favored mostly because as it aged its color evolved from that of old ivory to a golden honey hue that harmonized with the burnished red of the cedar hulls
41. He showed Joe wood planes, their wooden handles burnished by decades of use, their blades so sharp and precise they could shave off curls of wood as thin and transparent as tissue paper
42. Still pulling together as one, they crept across water burnished to bronze by a late afternoon sun
43. Enormous cogs and gears from the original bulb factory had been burnished and highlighted to terrific effect
44. On it stood a silver tray of smokables and a burnished spirit-stand, from which and an adjacent siphon my silent host proceeded to charge two high glasses
45. Frail, fine-boned, so white of skin that her flaming hair seemed to have drawn all the color from her face into its vital burnished mass, she was nevertheless possessed of exuberant health and untiring energy
46. Now burnished buildings and cars slipped free of her outline on the bus’s window
47. The sun struck through the green liquors that poured about the pier; struck, caught and burnished an idle whiteness that drifted in the offshore ripples
48. She did this and the guide slipped away into the darkness and out into the street where the cool moon burnished the fenders of his taxi
49. But Tristan, standing, drew his sword, his burnished sword, and said:
50. His hair shone like burnished gold
1. watched the light catch his hair, burnishing it to a blue-
2. In time, she will learn to balance the two, burnishing her image by switching to power suits and a simple strand of pearls
3. Over his shoulder he looked at his manicurist, Miss Weldon, who was busy burnishing the scraggly fingernails of a farmer named Gilpatrick
