In public, she kept the image of their idealized relationship carefully polished.

Rose considered the matter for a while, still carefully polishing her sword.

His gold scales gleamed as if each one were carefully polished.

But oddly rounded, smooth, as if they had been shaped and carefully polished.

He drew forth a rag and carefully polished the surface of the desk.

The silvery buckle on his belt had been carefully polished.

It spent two years planning the trip and many months carefully polishing the programs, which were to have been broadcast in the United States.

They carefully polished the syringe, and placed it, still labeled, beside Shores.

The guns at the house had produced nothing but fragments of prints: they'd all been carefully polished with cleaning rags.

The open marketplace was covered with a carefully polished and neatly compacted stone pavement.