Polishing

Examples

• Thoroughly clean the article from all grease and dirt (see polishing preparations, page 12), and apply with a soft rag or brush and polish with a chamois skin. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Before this latter operation, the finished tapering, smoothing, varnishing and polishing is done by hand. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Or the use of the diamond, or its dust, for polishing it when hard? William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The polishing is not necessarily done the same day they are ironed. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Polishing the rough edge of the girdle is rarely done and then usually to conceal a girdle which is too thick or lumpy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The human body, cloth, leather, metals, wood and grains, everything that needs rubbing, cleaning, painting and polishing, meets the acquaintance of the brush. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The paste does its work faster than the polishing powder, and if the articles are very much corroded it is preferable. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Found in their natural state in utmost perfection, needing no cutting nor polishing, these glowing beads of the sea were the first baubles of savages, tribes and nations. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• For polishing silver and nickel-plated ware, brass, copper, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• She goes to Germany to-morrow with one of your nieces for a little polishing up in her education. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Besides which, ma'am,' resumed Bitzer, while he was polishing the table, 'he looks to me as if he gamed. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Fig. 2 shows the sole plate in the hands of the workman, held against a rapidly revolving polishing wheel, after it has been run through a milling machine and ground to a perfect size. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Or the goods are ironed between a heated cylinder and a revolving drum covered with felting, and the polishing effected by the cylinder revolving faster than the drum. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Vast Application in Cutting, Grinding, Polishing. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• As soon as I have finished the polishing. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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