Polished

Examples

• The daguerreotype was made on a thin sheet of copper, silver plated on one side, polished to a high degree of brilliancy, and made sensitive by exposing it to the fumes of iodine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It consisted of a graduated arc of soli d polished brass five inches broad, two inches thick, and with a radius of about six and three quarters feet. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The lofty gateways are graced with statues, and the broad floors are all laid in polished flags of marble. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It is rough compared with a polished mirror. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I was hoping that if the paper on which he wrote was thin, some trace of it might come through upon this polished surface. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• His boots were smoothly polished dull leather. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He prepares a polished metal plate, generally zinc, with an extremely thin coating of film or fatty milk, which dries upon and adheres to the plate. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• No other thing can scratch or mar the polished facets and sharp corners of the diamond. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• She had seen a drop of eau de Cologne on the polished arm of the sofa, and instinctively sought to wipe it off. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• After the engraver has worked out the design in intaglio the die is put through the operation of hardening, after which, being cleaned and polished, it is called a matrix. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Here and there polished surfaces of ruby, emerald, and diamond patched the golden walls and ceiling. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• This type of vacuum cleaner, which is reasonable in price, is made of steel and finished in very highly polished nickel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• An iron bar was also used, polished, and with a man standing on it to insure solid contact; but only one thousand amperes passed through it--i. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The amiable creature with the polished head told me a long story, which I think was about gardening. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• They continued to correspond, she in the unweighed language of unwavering affection, he in the chilly phraseology of the polished rhetorician. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The accompanying illustration (Fig. 13) is of a rectangular grill, made of pressed steel and highly polished, designed to operate from any electric light socket. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If a mirror or any other polished surface is held in the path of a sunbeam, some of the light is reflected, and by rotating the mirror the reflected sunbeam may be made to take any path. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The knife and fork, so contemptuously flung aside a month before, Tarzan now manipulated as exquisitely as did the polished D'Arnot. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It dropped in the dirt, and he picked it up and polished it on his breeches, and laid it before us. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The more he polished the worse I smelt. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I never mentioned his manners; but, unless I had a very bad taste, they must suit it; they are polished, calm, and gentlemanlike. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Without doubt, said the polished uncle. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The hard shell of the nut is polished and made into cups and other domestic utensils. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The fact that some implements are polished does not preclude the presence of great quantities of implements of unpolished stone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The old-style mangle had a box, weighted with stone, which was reciprocated on rollers, and was run back and forth upon the clothes spread upon a polished table beneath. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Upon the last lid's polished field-- Legend now both fair and true A gallant knight bears on his shield, Amy in letters gold and blue. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• What a very finished, highly polished little pate it was! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The next moment I sat in a cold, glittering salon, with porcelain stove, unlit, and gilded ornaments, and polished floor. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

Typist: Theodore