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Updated: May 31, 2025
Madame Desprez was an artist in the kitchen, and made coffee to a nicety. She had a knack of tidiness, with which she had infected the Doctor; everything was in its place; everything capable of polish shone gloriously; and dust was a thing banished from her empire. Aline, their single servant, had no other business in the world but to scour and burnish.
He watched the silver ghosts flee from the northern sky, back, back to the frigid bergs which inspired their fantastic steps; the challenge hurled at the star-world's complacent reign. Even the perfect burnish of the silver moon was powerless before the victorious march of day. His spirit responded in perfect harmony.
She turned in haste, and laid her hand on the latch of the door, glancing once more at the horizon. There was now no sun at all. The burnish was gone from every part of the landscape, and a mild twilight reigned. One good omen had vanished; but there was still enchantment around; for again she heard the thrilling "Erica."
There are several establishments where they burnish up young ladies. There's Madame Chegary's " "I won't have her going to any French school and reading wretched French novels!" Steve threw back his head and laughed. He had such splendid, strong, white teeth. "My choice would be Rutgers Institute. It's going to be the school of the day," declared Joe. "Exactly. I was coming to that.
Near them were their arms, now sadly in want of polishing, while their trusty steeds, long roaming the rich pastures around, no sooner beheld than recognising them, trotted up to bear them once more to the field of battle or of fame. Their first care was to burnish up their armour and their weapons. For many a weary hour they rubbed.
Unknown as the names in it are, it is the epoch of restoration, and its 'bright consummate flower' is 'Jesus who is called the Christ. He will be a better David, will burnish again the tarnished lustre of the monarchy, will be all that earlier kings were meant to be and failed of being, and will more than bring the day which Abraham desired to see, and realise the ideal to which 'prophets and righteous men' unconsciously were tending, when as yet there was no king in Israel.
Then to the gunners, "Here, you, clean up your wagons and take off all that mud; it's filthy"; this was absolutely unnecessary and the fellows swore vehemently under their breath; to the drivers, "Clean up that 'ere 'arness and get that mud hoff it"; he also compelled us to burnish the steel and made the gunners scrub the paint off the brass and sandpaper it up.
Sometimes she earns in the sweat of her brows the bread of both, while he combats the invaders of their common country in pass and plain, or practises his athletic games in the peaceful valley, or even sits idle by the house-door, interrupting his listlessness only to burnish a weapon or caress his steed.
The troops, having had two days' rest to wash their clothes and burnish up their arms and accoutrements, marched from the station at Gondokoro at 6 A.M. I had 1,200 men on the ground, including ten mountain rifled guns throwing 8 and 1/4 lbs. shell.
The Duke of Nemours sent a trumpet into the town to defy the Great Captain to the encounter, but the latter coolly sent back word,— "It is my custom to choose my own time and place for fighting, and I would thank the Duc de Nemours to wait till my men have time to shoe their horses and burnish up their arms."
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