The mountain peaks alone glisten as though they were built of silver burnishedby an agate.
The rice-fields are under water, far and wide, shining like burnished gold beneath the level light now near to sun-down.
The dew was on its burnished leaves, and evening had drawn forth its perfume.
The sun shone on the long lines of poplars, just burnished with autumn's gold, which cast their shadows on damp green meadows ruled off into squares with almost mathematical precision.
Bright dots of burnished gold begin faintly to spangle the sky in front.
Numerous spires, glittering with gold, amidst burnished domes and painted palaces, appear in the midst of an open plain for several versts before you reach this gate.
Facing the earliest beams, as the sun rises out of a tossing ocean of Alpine peaks, it stands proudly up, a pinnacle of burnished gold with scarce a speck of shade to dim its lustre.
From the ceiling of the room, which was of burnished gold, opposite each of the doors and also opposite to the fireplace, hung three gilt cages containing small figures of artificial birds; these sung by mechanism.
Presently the scenery became very picturesque as we raced over the glistening surface, which flashed like a burnished cuirass beneath the rays of the rising sun.
A light air from the south-west was coming along, over the burnished heave, in a delicate blue film, with feelers and crawlers of the draught tarnishing the water in front of the breeze-line in catspaws.
The burnished swing-trays reflected the beams of the lamps.
Against the sunset the town was formless, murky; but the sky and harbor resembled the interior of a burnished kettle.
She got a coal for him in the small burnished tongs, and he responded with a prodigious puff that set her to coughing.
In the meanwhile, the grain was ripening fast, and when the riotous Northwest wind began to die away the oats turned lemon and silver, and the wheat burnished gold.
Another line came to him: “On burnished hooves his war-horse trode.
It's the Great Salt Lake, that shines out like burnished silver, and bursts on the sight of the new pilgrims when they arrive in bands at the holy city--the emigrants from this land.
All below is burnished copper, All above is burnished silver Gemmed with amethyst and agates.
He held a box of stove-polish in one hand and a brush in the other, and as he strolled he was giving his corselet and such parts of the armor as he could handily reach a glossy coat--a gleaming and burnished surface.
The helmet, though burnished and adorned with a horse's tail, had the unmistakable outlines of a copper kettle.
It was the gleam of the flickering flame upon burnished steel.
Beneath the milk-white sky of noon, when the fiery sun shone like a disc of burnished copper, we threw ourselves down beneath the shadow of a huge boulder to eat and rest.
It was one of those birds that have a polished plumage, and as it moved this way and that, flirting its feathers, they caught the beams and shone at moments like glass or burnished metal.
He was good to look at, too, this man in spotless white clothes, the blueness of his eyes throwing up the clear tan of his face, his burnished hair lying close to his head.
It was a deep, rich brown-red in shadow and a burnished coppery-red in the sunlight, wonderful to behold, but still red.
Its piled masses shown like burnished copper under the bright glare of numerous electric lights; and under the same brilliance her arms and neck seemed more like creamy satin than ever.
Shell gold is applied with a slightly damped brush and, when dry, may be burnished with an agate or punch; the design of the punch will stand out in bright gold on a ground of dull gold.
Then there was another flicker, and more and more, till it was plain enough that the sun was being reflected from burnished brass or steel, and the sinuous cloud was hovering over the regiment they had come to meet.
Her hair which, in the glow of the lamp at Asolando cash-desk had been golden, was to-day burnished copper, and was brushed straight back from her forehead and tied with a black ribbon.
The earth clung to its sides jealously, and it was bound with strips of brass that shone brightly where the scraping of our tools had burnished it.
The storm raged, the incessant flash played as it were round the burnished cornice of the chamber, and threw a lurid hue on the scenes of Watteau and Boucher that sparkled in the medallions over the lofty doors.
The last light of the sun was shed over the Moor when Gerard reached it, and the Druids' altar and its surrounding crags were burnished with its beam.
His swaying form fell softly upon the greensward, and above it floated a luminous figure clad in a crimson mantle, but whose face and bare arms were of the color of burnished bronze.
The ladies vied with the men in doing homage to the soldiers of the Palmetto State.
The conduct of the men and women through South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, showed one long and continued ovation along the line of travel, looking like a general holiday.
It would never do; she had forgotten how dusty and blurred it was, and she took her cloth and burnished the panes.
Citrons and oleanders also stood in tubs, and against the walls glistened the burnished leaves of the pomegranate; the scarlet flowers bloomed in spring and the warm fruit ripened till it burst in the hot autumn.
