On Wednesday mornings thepolisher opened the door, because Corentine was dressing her mistress.
There must be something out of the common, when a floor-polisher could arouse so strange an antipathy in a member of the Institute!
Leguay has given of the polisherrepresented in our figure.
In this sketch we have depicted the polisher found by M.
A Homemade Floor Polisher An efficient and cheap floor polishermay be readily constructed in the following manner: Make a box about 4 by 6 by 12 in.
A more sightly polisher may be made by filling the box with pieces of old iron or lead, tightly packed with paper to prevent rattling, and attaching a cover over the top.
The bottom of the polisher is covered with a piece of Brussels carpet.
Illustration: Flatirons in the Box] In use, it is well to set the polisher on a soft piece of cotton or flannel cloth, which may be readily renewed when badly soiled.
The lathe is of more use to a polisher than a great many persons outside the trade would imagine.
This is an important operation, for by it the polisher can easily tell the exact state of moisture, and at the same time, by the pressure being applied, the moisture is equalised.
It frequently happens in cabinet work that a faulty place is not discovered until after the work is cleaned off; the skill of the polisher is then required to paint it to match the other.
There is another process whereby an enamel can be produced upon furniture at a much cheaper rate than the preceding, and one too, perhaps, in which a polisher may feel more "at home.
And it bore little or no resemblance to the book as we have it now--now that the salaried polisher has holystoned all of the genuine Eddyties out of it.
He chose the trade of a lapidary, or polisher of precious stones, an art which in that age was held in almost as high esteem as that of the painter or sculptor.
Printing is one of the greatest inventions the world has ever seen, but it had its beginning in the simple fact that a young German polisher of gems fell to wondering how a rude playing-card had been made.
The page and the polisher actually stretched themselves out into the room like two felled trees, and their puffed-up paunches, the world was to fancy, lay like wine-sacks on their tressles.
Homemade Floor Polisher [10] A floorpolisher is something that one does not use but two or three times a year.
Drive a heavy screw eye into the big end of the handle and fasten to the polisher by a staple driven through the eye into the center of the cover, thus making a universal joint.
Sad Iron Polisher [286] A small amount of wax is necessary on an iron for successful work.
A polisher can be made at home that will do the work just as well.
Place three paving bricks inside of the box, and the polisher will weigh about 16 lb.
The polisher is used by rubbing with the grain of the wood.
When the polishing is done by machinery, which is the custom in Europe, with large lenses, the polisher is slid back and forth over the lens by means of a crank attached to a revolving wheel.
Then whatever parts either of the lens or of the polisher may be too high to form a spherical surface will be gradually worn down, thus securing the perfect sphericity of both.
The polisher is at the same time slowly revolving around a pivot at its centre, which pivot the crank works into, and the glass below it is slowly turned in an opposite direction.
A few chips, arrow-points, and a chisel of dark flint; a hammer and polisher of the hatchet-shaped kind.
This polisher must be turned quite flat and smoothed by a plane, as the willow, from its softness, is peculiarly difficult to turn.
Lois shrugged her shoulders, lifted her pretty brows, and tossed the nail-polisher on to the bureau to emphasize her contempt for bridge in all its forms.
Whereupon she began experimenting with the nail-polisher from Phil's set.
A Good Stove Polisher--A piece of burlap is a very good polisher for the kitchen stove or range when it is hot.
Hannah laid the nail-polisher beside the box of salve.
Hannah took up a little, ivory-backed nail-polisher which was also on the wash-stand.
The grease upon the leather will be quite sufficient to make |141| the polisher glide easily over the surface, but the operation must be rapidly and evenly done.
The oil or grease applied to the cover previous to laying on the gold will be sufficient to allow the polisher to glide easily over the surface.
As much as I can, my boy; but the amount I have to polish off, in what is called figuring, is so small that it requires the most delicate of treatment, and first of all we have to prepare a small polisher to work by hand.
A watch-case polisher told me a woman cannot earn more than $2 or $3 a week at polishing.
A good polisher can earn $1 a day of ten hours' work.
He says it is the best polisher he ever had, and uses it on my fine shoes to his own entire satisfaction.
The polisher consists of a circular piece of wood covered with buff leather, the surface of which is covered from time to time, while in use, with the crocus of iron, called also colcothar of vitriol.
The polisher requires to run at a speed much short of that of the stone, or the glazer.
His polisher is a round piece of hard wood, slightly convex below, with a handle standing upright in its upper surface, for seizing it firmly.
There are machines, however, which can be made to execute the proper motions, and a polisher is set in such a machine, and the mechanical work done is by no means inconsiderable.
The polisher being now ready, a very small quantity of rouge and water is taken upon a fine sponge and equally distributed over its surface.
By working upon these alternately with the same polisher, we finally get our polisher into such shape that it approximates more and more to a flat surface, and with extreme care and slow procedure we finally attain the results desired.
This final touch is given by hand; if we do not get the polish in a few minutes the surface is generally ruined for shape, and we have to resort to the hard polisher again.
The previously ground and fined salt surface (this work is done the same as in glass working) is now placed upon the polisher and motion instantly set up in diametral strokes.
In fact for surfaces above six inches in diameter few people are strong enough to work a polisher by hand owing to the intense adhesion between it and the exactly fitting glass surface.
If paper is employed, care must be taken that the polisher is about the same size as the object to be polished.
The bright spots are the objects of attention, and they must be erased by the old file, and the polisher reapplied to the glass.
The polisher is moved over the work in much the same way as the fine grinding tool, until the glass is polished.
The "chisel and mallet" method of altering the size of the pitch, squares of the polisher may be employed, or paper or small pitch tools may be used to deepen the centre.
We always work for figure, and when we get a hard polisher that is in proper shape, we can do ever so many surfaces with it if the environments of temperature are all right.
I usually walk around the polisher while working a surface.
There are other methods based on knocking squares out of the pitch-polisher so that some parts of the glass may be more abraded than others.
A drop of rouge and about three drops of water are put on the plate, and with the soft polisher about one minute suffices to clean up all the scratches and leave a beautiful black polish on the metal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polisher" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: buffer; iron; smoother
