How To Use unburnished In A Sentence
- It was not calculation but humility - together with his understanding that it is preferable not to rust unburnished but to shine in use - that gave him another lease on life.
- Ulysses cannot abide the idleness of age and continues to reflect: "How dull it is to pause, to make an end, / To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! Peter Davis: Milestone or Millstone?
- His recollections are more striking for being so understated and unburnished. Times, Sunday Times
- The inventory of 1700 describes 'its wooden frame gilded with unburnished gold'.
- In northern European paintings matt, unburnished gilding is also found and contracts may specify which areas are to be burnished and which are to be matt.
- I rather think of Ted Kennedy, working phones from his sickbed to garner support for his lifelong cause of healthcare for all Americans, as scorning to rust unburnished. Archive 2009-08-23
- His gift is to turn unburnished material into observational gold. Times, Sunday Times
- Tennyson was right, to rust unburnished was inconceivably dull. The Forgotten Garden
- It was unburnished gray - aluminum or magnesium, by its light weight - and smoothly streamlined.
- Nymphs and satyrs in Florentine bronze smirked and capered in the recesses of the pale gray wall, relieved by mouldings and medallions in unburnished gold.