to give some finishing strokes to an essay

[…] the most important being: prokaryote and eukaryote cell, monocellularity and multicellularity.

As yet there had been no symptom of the news having any better foundation than in the fears of those who brought it, but The Boot had not been deserted five minutes, when there appeared, coming across the fields, a body of men who, it was easy to see, by the glitter of their arms and ornaments in the sun, and by their orderly and regular mode of advancing # A shiny, decorative adornment, sometimes sprinkled on glue to make simple artwork.

This Text holdeth their noses so hard to the grynde stone that it clean disfigureth their faces.