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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

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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Elaborately staged, furbished with the faultless voice of Miss Ponselle, it will, they think, be popular.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

This he cleaned and furbished up as well as he could, but he found one great defect—it would not in any part stand one stroke from modern steel, much less one shot from modern gun.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, October 29, 1887 by Various

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

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

His small feet were shod in the shiningest of shoes, which he had given a furbishing in the barn, and a flowing cravat tied in a large bow adorned his low collar.

From The Rustler of Wind River by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

And this mighty furbishing up of pewter reminds me that justice requires me to do a stroke of the same work.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade