http://wordie.org/words/burnish Comments for the word 'Burnish' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/burnish#comments "Close to the shore, patches of vapour, soot-black but with the burnish and consistency of <a href="/words/agate">agate</a>, visibly solid and <a href="/words/palpable">palpable</a>, were trying to rise one above another over the sea in ever wider tiers, so that the highest of them, poised on the top of the twisted column and overreaching the centre of gravity of those which had hitherto supported them, seemed on the point of bringing down in ruin this lofty structure already half-way up the sky, and precipitating it into the sea."<br /><br />-- Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, p 523 of the Modern Library paperback edition Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:45:19 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/burnish#comments