furbish

How To Use furbish In A Sentence

• Cart-horses furbished up for sale, with straw-bound tails and glistening skins; 'baaing' flocks of sheep; squeaking pigs; bullocks with their heads held ominously low, some going, some returning, from the auction yard; shouting drovers; lads rushing hither and thither; dogs barking; everything and everybody crushing, jostling, pushing through the narrow street. Hodge and His Masters
• We are going to wait until we have refurbished and repainted it before selling.
• Uncle Fliakim Sheril, furbished up in a new crisp black suit, and with his spindleshanks trimly incased in the smoothest of black silk stockings, looking for all the world just like an alert and spirited black cricket, outdid himself on this occasion in singing _counter_, in that high, weird voice that he must have learned from the wintry winds that usually piped around the corners of the old house. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
• This is where another highly successful businesswoman with a love of property refurbishment is selling her home. Times, Sunday Times
• Intendants and servitors were giving orders on all sides, frequently contradictory, and gardeners were furbishing up the alleyed walks and flower beds in readiness for _Sa Majesté Louis Royal Palaces and Parks of France
• But now the Cumbrians are enjoying a new lease of life in their refurbished ground and are currently second. The Sun
• Check online for sites selling refurbished laptops or check your local dealer.
• Inside, it had been refurbished in the `country pub ' style of the big breweries. KICK BACK
• Aldan had furbished the extremely large room in the basement, previously used for storage, for the three young girls.
• Restoration of the paddle steamer will involve stripping the entire front third of the vessel before repairing the hull and refurbishing the engines.