Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...building faces East, and highly polished oak doors set off the front porch, in the centre of which "Non Ministrari sed Ministrare" is laid in tessello ted marble. All the inner doors, floors, and window sashes are made of soft yellow pine, which is capable of a very high polish. The walls and ceilings are glazed with a hard, white, glossy finish. The sun parlors are the principal features of the building, being so constructed as to admit the sunlight during the whole...
...speeches were delivered for the most part while on his mission tours, and are ten in number. The two longest are those delivered at Antioch and at Athens. In all cases but one he spoke in Greek, and while there is sometimes a lack of that smoothness and polish found in the classical writers, there is at all times a force and directness of speech which is very impressive...
...well-dressed gentleman cannot but be delighted with "Beau Brummell" as Richard Mansfield shows him to the Globe Theatre audiences. There is an exquisite artistic delicacy in his impersonation of this most noted of English swells, and throughout the play the dialogue is admirable in its terseness and its polish. The delineation of the minor characters is excellent, and "Beau Brummell," as a play, is a piece of work at once literary and effective...
...idol to adore in his stead, Mr. McCulloch's criticism is julicio is and reasonable. He a Limits his in toility to prophecy as to Mr. Kipling's future but at the same time is disposed to look too leniently on the superficiality, lack of polish and mannerism of the last product of publishers and society coterie booming...