Because he polishes the understanding of his patrons.
Because he polishes the understandings of his patrons.
The active constituent of all metal polishes is generally chalk, rouge, or tripoli, because these produce a polish on metallic surfaces.
In a small house, the butler polishes silver, but in a very big house one of the footmen is silver specialist, and does nothing else.
One of the most expert lapidaries of Geneva works by means of the following improved mechanism, of his own invention, whereby he cuts and polishes the facets with extreme regularity, converting it into a true dial.
In particular, before using it again, she cleans, smooths and polishes her laying-tool, the probe that places the eggs.
The boy who cleans and polishes his boots and shoes receives a fee of fifty or seventy-five cents.
She answers the doorbell, polishes the silver, helps with the washing of the dishes and sees that the table is correctly laid for each meal.
He washes dishes and windows and polishes the silver.
Cleaning and Polishing Shoes In using the polishes now on the market for tan shoes, I found that the leather cracked in an unreasonably short time.
This wood is straight-grained and free from knots, which makes it easily worked; it polishes well and is durable.
It also polishes the pearl and will not bleach delicate colors.
It gilds what modesty graces; and polishes what modesty improves.
In particular, before using it again, she cleans, smoothes andpolishes her laying tool, the probe that places the eggs.
While waiting, one washes her antennae by passing them through her mouth, another polishes her wings with her hind legs, another frisks about to while away the period of inaction.
Brown and blue spirit polishes were produced by dyeing the gum and spirit mixture with an aniline dye.
She quietlypolishes her wings and curls her antennae by pulling them while standing on them with her fore-tarsi.
The struggle is announced by the same preparations as those displayed by the Two-banded Scolia: the Wasp polishes her wings and taps the table with the tips of her antennae.
It produces an oil, and is a strong wood for general purposes, polishes well and can be used advantageously for house decorations and furniture.
It is the Mahogany of the Philippines, inasmuch as it is always employed in Manila in the manufacture of furniture, for notwithstanding its somewhat open grain, it polishes well, and is prettily marked.
He tests its handle and polishes its blade; he studies the manual of arms; he seeks the best masters; he practices its use through many months.
For this he looks after your personal needs, polishes your boots, and opens or closes your bed when you desire it.
She brushes and wipes off the window casings and gas fixtures, dusts and replaces the furniture, polishes the mirrors, and washes the windows the last thing, provided the sun is not shining on them at this time.
Most silver polishes are made of chalk prepared in different ways, but beware of the one which cleans too quickly: it is liable to remove the silver with the tarnish.
Those silver polishes which are intended to be rubbed on the articles and then removed with very hot water are the more desirable.
Two of the polishes suggested for floors, are equally good for furniture: 1/2 turpentine to 1/2 crude oil.
Kerosene used by itself both cleans and polishes floors, but its odour is an objection to its use.
It occurs in small pale yellow scales, slightly acid, and is soluble in alcohol; it is used in both polishes and varnishes.
In making either polishes or varnishes, all the gums should be first pounded and reduced to powder before mixing with the spirit, and when mixed they should be occasionally well shaken or stirred, so as to hasten their dissolution.
Shellac forms the principal ingredient for polishes and spirit varnishes.
These black polishes should not be applied if there are coloured woods in the piece of furniture.
In making polishes or varnishes, the mixture will frequently require shaking until dissolved.
Thus is the resin which exudes from the spruce-fir, and is used by some polishers in the making of polishes and varnishes.
Coloured varnishes can be made in exactly the same manner as coloured polishes (see page 6).
In first-class work, therefore, stainedpolishes or varnishes should be applied instead of these pigments.
This spirit began to be much used in the manufacture of polishes and varnishes in the year 1848, and has continued to be much used ever since.
He writes his poems with a lead pencil, and polishes them for weeks before they are published.
He makes a rough draft of his work, has this copied by an amanuensis, and then polishes and files it until it is satisfactory to him, that is, as perfect as he possibly can make it.
After his manuscript is done, he polishes it here and there, and then copies it; for while slowly transcribing he can most easily detect mistakes.
With little taps of the mandibles and a continual shaking of her head, a sign of her zest for the work, she smooths and polishes the surface of the lid for hours at a time.
It polishes well, and is said to be durable in contact with the soil.
The wood polishesalmost to the smoothness of holly.
The wood is light to dark red, the thin sapwood nearly white; it works easily, splits readily, and polishes well.
Some mahogany is called "woolly grained" because the surface polishes with difficulty.
It polishes well, may be cut with great ease, and after it is seasoned it holds its form better than most woods.
It is moderately strong, a little below white pine; it is brittle, again ranking below white pine; it splits and works easily and polishes well.
The handle maker classes hickory as "smooth grained", because it polishes well and the sole idea of the maker is smoothness to the touch.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polishes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
