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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week a group of Manhattan bankers and labor leaders furbished up a new sort of bait to attract the $6,000,000,000 to $7,000,000,000 which U. S. labor accumulates each year.

From Time Magazine Archive

He found as a matter of experience that wherever a mail-coach was set up other traffic followed, and the post-chaises along the road were furbished up and better conducted.

From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Herbert Joyce

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

They are furbishing the stands Of arms; and we have got some guns to bear, And scaled them.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

Chief of the phraseurs stand Mr Babington Macaulay and Mr Lalor Shiel, the peculiarity of whose craft—a profitable craft of late years—consists in furbishing up old ideas into new and euphonious forms of speech.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various