Except for his burnished mail, he could have been at a ball.

He watched the burnished light on the soft planes of her face.

Straight blonde hair sitting on her head like a burnished helmet.

Morgan smiled and ran an idle hand through his burnished hair.

Guards in burnished armor snapped to attention as he passed.

She walked in and saw him hunched over his burnished desk reading a journal article.

Several burnished pans, too big to go in the cupboards, hung against them.

"Her dark skin had a burnished quality to it: a heightening," he says.

The moonlight struck him, turning his burnished splendor all pale.

The details were exquisite, and the flower glowed with a burnished life of its own.

Lush green mixed with specks of light brown and burnished gold.

Bane rose, put on his burnished helm, and stood quietly.

He sat tall and imposing, the sunlight glinting off his burnished brown hair.

The ocean lay flat as burnished metal, and the air smelled like an oven.

Instead, under the light stood burnished squares and cylinders for which his native language had no names.

Adam drawled slowly, the hint of a smile on his burnished face.

So much so, in fact, that at a certain point you have to wonder: how close does the burnished image come to the reality?

She shook her head full of burnished curls emphatically.

He patted the burnished side of the boat affectionately.

(Later a dry process with two burnished surfaces was also used.)

He smiled at Mendoza, showing a line of small white teeth in his deeply burnished face.

They buried him in Westchester on a gilded autumn morning, a burnished day.

They left the cellar to the glistening idol and the burnished cannons.

As the trail wound through the woods, the path changed to a powdery burnished brown color.

She is beautiful, with that rare burnished beauty that lasts through the years.

She reported that Burnish had once again refused his own food.

Both the pilots turned to see Burnish entering the control chamber.

It was the period when it would be appropriate to sleep again, and still no sign of Burnish.

Burnish contributed a hard, rhythmic clap, like impact pistol fire.

"We are looking to make sure that they are still there," Burnish said somberly.

"Planets are common enough," Burnish assured his crew, "but life is not."

"Those are signatures of such faster-than-light travel," Burnish went on.

"I hope it will not actually lead to a confrontation," Burnish said wryly, "but, yes, that is the general plan.

"I know the one you mean," Tel Burnish confirmed.

From the back of the room, Tel Burnish gave a snort of contempt.

But we ought to kill Burnish.

"Burnish and polish, scour and shine," a deep voice growled.

Burnish pointed with one bony hand.

After a mo- ment Burnish silenced himself like a man biting his tongue.

And Burnish did not reappear.

Burnish exchanged whispered objections with his aides and Carsin.

Burnish looked away.

Tel Burnish put in dryly.

Burnish replied without hesitation.

"Oh, I hope not," Burnish said gloomily.

Tel Burnish squirmed with tension.

Things might have progressed farther--a little--but that was the moment when Burnish chose to join them.

Breeze seemed more exhilarated than frightened by the news, even after Burnish added, "Our visit will not be a simple look-and-depart.

Burnish touched a knurled wheel and the wall lookplate lit up, displaying a pebbly gray field.

Tel Burnish and Blaine Manse hadn't voted yet.

Burnished by the strong economy, most of the growth is at the high end.

But the hotel's overall image is burnished in the process.

The morning sun burnished the King's hair to a natural crown.

When it was burnished clean, you could see the image of a man's head with his name on the back.

He was looking for a new challenge to burnish his legacy.

Today, Perry's image still needs burnishing in his own country.

While burnishing, you will see the image fade away even more.

But the sun became glory, when it burnished her hair.

The department hopes to change that and, perhaps, burnish its image along the way.

Something small, burnished with amber fire dropped into her hand.

But he was amazed that the city even felt a need to burnish its image.

And yet, energy crops may also be an opportunity for the industry to burnish its public image.

I like the fact that people don't quite know what it, burnished, means.

They hung in the water with the California sun burnishing their faces.

But for the most part his singing was burnished and ardent.

This results in burnishing the hole to the proper size.

So, he saw it as his mission at the time to "burnish the hospital's image."

For that matter he doesn't mind burnishing the dream himself.

The lantern light burnished his hair again, and the full beard.

It was as if his senses had been tuned and burnished.

The surface of the vessels is either burnished or plain.

New eggs are a bright yellow color, but they later turn burnished red.

His armor was burnished to a higher sheen than ever before.

They worry about whether the public's view of Congress will be burnished or tarnished.

It also benefits from the qualities of judgment those years have burnished.