It is sharpened to kill victims: it is furbished that it may glitter: thou removest the sceptre of my son, thou hast cut down every tree.
In all their gates I have set the dread of the sharp sword, the sword that is furbished to glitter, that is made ready for slaughter.
A fair place, this," she said presently, as the man furbished his sword.
He furbished up a minor woe to serve the occasion.
So she brushed him, and furbished him up as well as she could, and he himself took a pair of new shoes, and polished them till they shone like a mirror, and when he had done so, off he went.
So she furbished him up and tricked him out in the handsomest way, and he himself took out his new shoes and polished them so brightly that you could see yourself in them, and when he had done so he set forth.
Everything has passed its meridian except the brilliant façade of the cathedral, which is being diligently retouched and restored, and a few private palaces whose broad fronts seem to have been lately furbished and polished.
I have been speaking here of well-furbished armour and bright shining swords.
To him, as to Shakespeare, old pieces of the repertory were entrusted to be rewritten, expanded, and furbished up.
Several years had now passed since he had revised and furbished up the old dramas on the subject of Henry VI.
The chateau had been furbished up once more after a long sleep, and, to the great satisfaction of the inhabitants of the town, there were more comings and goings than there had been for a quarter of a century.
And it is given to be furbished That it may be handled: The sword, it is sharpened, yea it is furbished, To give it into the hand of the slayer.
But the impending destruction continues to gather force: And it is given to befurbished that it may be handled, etc.
And they furbished arms and cast bullets until it was morning, and thus for three days.
And everywhere for the work of liberty men founded forges and furbished the weapons that went away on the ships that skirted along the coasts.
He admired and praised the well-furbished weapons of the crossbowmen, and the formidable bows of the confraternity of the archers.
When you were the director of our puppet-show, for instance, how many times were fresh clothes got ready for the dwarfish troop, fresh decorations furbished up?
A part of my comrades I had now got well equipped; by degrees, the rest were likewise furbished up, though on a thriftier plan; and so a very seemly corps at length was mustered.
Pass 1700 years, and the long-since-forgotten blunder is furbished up afresh by Drs.
And we exclaim (surely not without good reason) against the hardship of thus having an exploded corruption of the text of Scripture furbished up afresh and thrust upon us, after lying deservedly forgotten for upwards of a thousand years.
In the evening we furbished our guns, chose the steel-pointed bullets we used for elephants, and then went to sleep on the dry ground.
We furbished our guns, and had a real nice day in getting ready for some grand hunting.
Drake crowded sail, had muskets {7} and swords furbished and thirty cannon loaded, and called on his crew to quit themselves like men.
Indian ponies fattened during the {120} summer on the deep pasturage of the Willamette or the plains of Walla Walla would be brought in to the fort and furbished forth in gayest of trappings.
The coming and going of worshippers, singly or in processions, and of barefooted pabas, to whom the dizzy height was all the world, had worn its surface smooth as furbished iron.
The dental engine and the nickelled trimmings of the operating chair had been furbished till they shone, while on the movable rack in the bay window McTeague had arranged his instruments with the greatest neatness and regularity.
It is drawn for slaughter; it is furbished to shine like lightning (ver.
It is made like lightning, furbished for slaughter!
