"Furbish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... contemplated trip to Valldemosa, Jaime stood in the reception hall gazing at the pictures of his forefathers. How much glory, and how much dust! It had been twenty years, perhaps, since a merciful cloth had passed over the illustrious family to furbish it up a little. The more remote grandfathers and the famous battles were covered with cobwebs... and to think that the pawnbrokers had declined to acquire this museum of glories under the pretext that ...
— The Dead Command - From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan • Vicente Blasco Ibanez |
