What is "brushing up"

Usage examples of "brushing up".

The only brushing up I'd done was to beat the dust off my hat and wipe my guns off careful.

And then I was conscious of something else again: feathery fingers of ice brushing up and down my spine.

They worked independently of one another, nodding to this man, brushing up against that one, smiling and ducking their heads at the women.

They came from everywhere, brushing up against her, landing on her shoulders, her arms.

But once they were on better terms, Henri had often noticed the abbot watching him, and the abbot had started touching Henri more often, brushing up against him, putting his arm across Henri's shoulders.

Flitting into this person, dancing around that one, brushing up against another, Simkin kept up a steady flow of lively conversation as he moved ever nearer the front of the crowd.

With my legs together he wasnt brushing up against anything that Requiem had hurt.

Enough that it sparked his beast awake inside him, and I felt it curl inside his body, like brushing up against a cat in the dark.

And after that jaunt in Riverside Park, I've also been brushing up at the shooting range.

Oh, you'd better let Corrolin know that the war's over as well, and then you two'd better start brushing up on your manners.

Ahh, he thought, brushing up against her presence with a mental kiss.

In the meantime, I am brushing up my sword drill and it is definitely all `coming back' to me.

I've been brushing up on my Gaelic since McKenzie was here and I think the first is something like 'Calling the Dead' or 'Waking the Dead.

But she preferred that they think of her brushing up on her information.

In the meantime, I am brushing up my sword drill and it is definitely all coming back to me.