'If we cleaned the earth away and polished the bones . . .' whispered Fernleaf, rubbing the tail of his cloak on the weathered cheekbone and high-domed forehead of the nearest skull.

The part-time barman smiled lopsidedly and polished away at a dazzling pint pot.

Narcissus had done neither, just plodded along, polishing away.

Polishing the Paramount With its 75th anniversary two years away, the Paramount Center for the Arts in Peekskill is preparing for a face-lift.

If that does not help, try polishing the scratch away.

And it's the specificity of real things that most enchants him - a candle "stubby in its thick drapery of wax," the linoleum pattern "polished away to the point where it had the look of a faint memory," "a long, chill pistol, blue-black and heavy."

For the first time Cymoril of Imrryr was forgotten as they lay down, together on the soft turf, oblivious of Moonglum who polished away at his curved sword with wry jealousy.

So into the kitchen we carried it, and we found the silver polish, and we polished away.

Kerim had been polishing away at the hooded eyepieces between the two handle-bars that stuck out on both sides of the base of the periscope.

Unfortunately, with the dampness, they became caked with a kind of white film that took her weeks to polish away.