furbish

When Andrew Friedman arrived in Los Angeles, he hoped to furbish a player-development machine that hummed like the one in St. Louis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2016

Yet it seems to be more important to furbish large roadside coffee pots,” McCain said.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2011

And Canada's CCF socialists, although they still had their leader, Schoolmasterish Major J. Coldwell, had already called a national convention Aug. 19 to furbish up a new platform.

From Time Magazine Archive

He grew increasingly convinced that I was needlessly trafficking with his enemies in the "Georgetown set" and at the same time was using my public relations skills to furbish my image and not his.

From Time Magazine Archive

She would have Sophie to look over all her “toilettes,” as she called frocks; to furbish up any that were “passées,” and to air and arrange the new.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Favourable mention may also be made of a certain ballad composed by the late Professor Palmer, in illustration of his inability to master nautical terms, which he furbishes up in mirth-provoking fashion.

From By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects by William Davenport Adams

He provides himself with a more magnificent cumberbund, enlarges the border of gold thread on his puggree, and furbishes up his English that he may converse pleasantly with mem saheb. 

From Behind the Bungalow by Edward Hamilton Aitken

And, unluckily, he went once more over all the papers of the investigation, analyzing the evidence he had, like a soldier, who, on the eve of a battle, furbishes up his arms.

From Within an Inch of His Life by Émile Gaboriau

She furbishes up her old knowledge and talks with them, she reads the books he has recommended to Violet, and they discuss them together until it appears as if she were the interested one.

From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda Minnie Douglas

If he collects old bottles, and furbishes them up “equal to new,” there will be so many less new bottles wanted, and a lot of existing glass-bottle makers will be thrown out of work.

From Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England by G. W. (George William) Foote

No public official but had furbished up his funny stories and tucked a speech into his coat against an emergency.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nineteen years later the flagon had been furbished up, called the America's Cup, put in competition for the second time.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fans, neckcloths, puffed and powdered melodies furbished once more the elegant infidelities of Manon Lescaitt; pompous swaddlings adorned the familiar French-Hebrew heroics of Samson et Dalila.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cleaners furbished up the D. A. R.'s Constitution Memorial Hall where the evening ceremonials would occur.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was all plain enough, but he furbished up his philosophy, nevertheless—that odd philosophy which at variance with his brighter thoughts, sought to prepare those to whom it appealed for the worst that might happen.

From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) by Frederick William Robinson

Their invitation Dr. Fosdick expressed in a great exordium: The great east window of Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian Church has long needed proper furbishing in stained glass.

From Time Magazine Archive

After furnishing and furbishing his embassy residence to the tune of $1,000,000, the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Along with the doves, there was a great program for furbishing up the state buildings, the Russian embassy, the swank Bristol hotel; scaffolds lined the buildings on Unter den Linden.

From Time Magazine Archive

He flashed his quick, infectious smile at me, and tweaked his mustache ends, for all the world like a self-satisfied tomcat furbishing his whiskers after finishing a bowl of cream.

From Pledged to the Dead by Seabury Quinn

That night, with great labour, Sanders, furbishing his rusty Latin, and filling in gaps, made a translation:

From Sanders of the River by Edgar Wallace