He declared that there was no style of living to be compared with the simple, dignified order of a true New England home, where servants were excluded, and everything came direct from the polished and cultured hand of a lady.
The sun shone cheerily on the polished floor; the air, freshened by the rain which had fallen in the night, entered freely through the open doorway.
Deceased had made his own coffin five years ago, of old soap chests and tea chests, and had polished it up so that it looked like mahogany.
Dripping crystals and flashing in the sun, the polished blades rose and fell, as the "Sea-Deer" bounded forward.
About 100 pieces of the square pieces of stone are put in the grooves at once, and in a few minutes are made round and polished by the wooden block.
You are polished and cool, and have an irreproachable repose of manner.
No, my polished friend, whose elegant repose of manner I yet greatly commend, I am content, if you are.
Next he held out a mirror whose reflecting surface was a polished silver metal.
The floor was polished hardwood, rugs from India here and there, in sore need of a vacuuming, and even a couple of deceased insects that'd been there for over a week.
Confectionery there was in profusion: she filled, too, a goblet of polished crystal with foaming wine; but I had no need to drink, as I had refreshed myself with the fruits.
The furniture is upholstered in pale blue, with threads of deep crimson and gold; the hangings are of rich chenille; the floor of polished oak, with rich Indian rugs distributed here and there.
Her smoothly polished exterior prevented all possibility of obtaining any hold over her.
That Consul is always somewhere else," Jack thought despairingly, as he took off his shoes at the beautifully carved and polished door that led to the apartment of the ladies.
There are in all fourteen members of the sisterhood here, much the same type of women in birth and station and training as the polished nobility that founded the first religious institutions of New France.
The inside is carefully polishedand upholstered with a thin waterproof film.
The result is a milled surface whereon the polished layer will find a solid adhesive base.
A regular shape and a polished surface would be out of place here.
Each of them gives access to a short passage, sometimes straight, sometimes winding, nearly horizontal, polished with minute care and varnished with a sort of white glaze.
Against the exquisite work of the Anthophora, partition and plug strike a note as hideously incongruous as a lump of dirt on polished marble.
There was a large, solid cedar table, which Mrs. Evans had rubbed and polishedtill the dark red grain of the noble wood was clearly visible.
I polished off a fellow about the date of the battle of Crecy in great style the other day.
A close examination, as with the microscope, will disclose irregularity and roughness on the most polished or smooth surface: how then will that surface appear which is uneven without the microscope?
Our daughters who are blessed with such mothers, may become as polished corner stones in a temple--worthy of themselves, of those who educate them, and of God.
The eggs vary in number from twelve to sixteen; they are elliptical in form, of a beautiful deep green in colour, and have highly polished shells.
It lays two to four eggs, with white and highly polished shells, and breeds in holes which it excavates in old walls of mud or of unbaked brick, also in the banks of streams; and the eggs are laid on the bare floor without any lining.
The eggs are white, four or five in number, pear-shaped, and withpolished shells.
The shell is polished and exceedingly fragile, a rare thing in the eggs of a raptor.
The eggs have a pale stone ground-colour, very thickly but finely speckled with light and dark chocolate markings; they have a polished appearance, and measure 1.
The very name of Sinngedichte bears witness to this peculiarity, which is exemplified equally by the rude priameln or proeameln, of the 13th and 14th centuries and the polished lines of Goethe and Schiller.
Robertson was, perhaps, the first man to adapt the polished periphrases of the pulpit to historical generalization.
Epidosites when streaked and variegated have been cut and polished as ornamental stones.
Instead of holding its usual array of silver-backed brushes and polished shaving tackle, winking in the sunshine, it was empty.
And so, plain woodwork was as white as snow, paint-work clean, polished wood looked as bright as the back of a boatman beetle, and brass shone like burnished gold.
I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies.
Certainly, sir, and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world: every savage can dance.
The rear portion of the tower has not been neglected, either, but is clothed with a clinging garment of polished ivy which hides the wounds and stains of time.
It will not do for me to find merit in American manners--for are they not the standing butt for the jests of critical and polished Europe?
