| 1. | And no one to burnish the gold-plated vessel. - from Beowulf by |
| 2. | Yet, in saying this, I do but indirectly burnish a little brighter the noble merit of the poem and the poet. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 3. | well afterwards fire it, and beat it or burnish it with a good burnisher, and make it thick towards the side. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |