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Updated: June 26, 2025
"When the news arrived at Sinope," says Lucian though I own the story is rather trite-"that Philip was about to attack them, the inhabitants were thrown into a violent alarm. Some ran to furbish up their arms; others rolled stones to build up the walls; everybody, in short, was employed, and everybody in the way of his neighbor.
Scouts were ordered out to discover the number of the foe, and convey assurances of succor to the rangers said to be blocked up in the fortresses, though Washington suspected the latter to be "more encompassed by fear than by the enemy." Smiths were set to work to furbish up and repair such firearms as were in the place, and waggons were sent off for musket balls, flints, and provisions.
As the Parisian lounger may have observed, the boulevard between the Rue de la Paix and the Rue Louis-le-Grand prospered but slowly; it took so long to furbish and beautify itself, that trade did not set up its display there till 1840 the gold of the money-changers, the fairy-work of fashion, and the luxurious splendor of shop-fronts.
You can wear second mourning now, I suppose!" exclaimed Eleanor, sending a look at her sister. She hurried to the closet and took a long flat box from the upper shelf. As she carried it over to Sary, Barbara stared. "Eleanor Maynard! What are you giving her?" "Something I never will need this summer, and Sary can use it very nicely to furbish up that black dress."
Right; answered my uncle Toby, it is not easy, Trim, for one, bred up as thou and I have been to arms, who seldom looks further forward than to the end of his musket, or backwards beyond his knapsack, to know much about this matter God bless your honour! said the corporal, won by the manner of my uncle Toby's reasoning, as much as by the reasoning itself, he has something else to do; if not on action, or a march, or upon duty in his garrison he has his firelock, an' please your honour, to furbish his accoutrements to take care of his regimentals to mend himself to shave and keep clean, so as to appear always like what he is upon the parade; what business, added the corporal triumphantly, has a soldier, an' please your honour, to know any thing at all of geography?
We are just beginning to drag them out of the dust and furbish them up and pretend they are ours, just as people rub up and adorn themselves with jewels dug out of excavations." "In America people think so many new things," said poor little Lady Anstruthers with yearning humbleness. "The whole civilised world is thinking what you call new things," said Betty. "The old ones won't do.
Dick Furbish was a society man, and knew everybody. "His name is Clavering, and he comes from London. I don't know anything more about him, though he is to be seen everywhere except in private houses. He has not been received into society yet; waiting for litters of introduction, perhaps." "A gentleman?" "Undoubtedly." "One you speak to?"
Perhaps we constructively BREAK the command to rest, because the resting we do is in most cases only a name, and not a fact. These reasonings have sufficed, in a measure, to mend the rent in my conscience which I made by traveling to Baden-Baden that Sunday. We arrived in time to furbish up and get to the English church before services began.
It was a fair and honest bargain, and I must keep my part of it miss." "Would you like some roses to put with the violets?" said Carrie, making a careful calculation. "Roses, miss? That would be prime, and very seasonable, wouldn't they miss?" "Yes, violets and roses look very pretty together, and I'll pin them into your hat and furbish it up.
Whatever a man knows about life and its doings, that let us hear about. You must have tossed a good deal about the world, and have countless sketches in your memory and your portfolio. Please to think if you can furbish up any of these besides a novel. When events occur, and you have a good lively tale, bear us in mind.
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