polish'd

Fame on the first and most polish'd Poet in the Kingdom.

Letter 25 2009

Numidia, a Country nearer Europe, and consequently more polish'd and adorn'd with European Customs than

Exilius 2008

I am sure that there are many Ladies who will find your Example most Useful; and that there are Persons of both Sexes among the Audience at this your Theatre of Topicks as I call it, who will also find the polish'd Pictures you have made of the Occasion most Pleasant.

A Madison Avenue shoe space. Ann Althouse 2008

The wise Observer will not be fool'd, however, by the polish'd Surface of this Work, for the Composition is very defective, and the Taste yet Gothick.

"A 'Virtuous vanilla' lip balm and a 'Get Tight with Christ' hand and body cream, featuring a picture of Christ flanked by two adoring women." Ann Althouse 2008

Evil may appear all the more sinister, especially to those whose Judgment was form'd before this Looking-Glass was polish'd, silver'd & fram'd.

"Trolling is basically Internet eugenics... I want everyone off the Internet. Bloggers are filth. They need to be destroyed." Ann Althouse 2008

Greks and Trojans; one of white Marble, the other of polish'd Brass; here an Achilles, there an Hector; here an Ajax, there an Æneas; so that one sees the History of that renown'd Siege in Sculpture and cast Statues.

Exilius 2008

Thou may'st be searched for polish'd words and verse

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

        Lightly the polish'd floor creak'd to the sandal again.

Poems and Fragments 2006

        Lightly the polish'd floor creak'd to the sandal again.

Poems and Fragments 2006

According to Shaftesbury, “they have far more pleasure in hearing the monstrous accounts of monstrous men, and man - ners; than the ... lives of the wisest and most polish'd people.”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas A. OWEN ALDRIDGE 1968