varnish

• "I don't know whether I have scratched your varnish, as you call it, but I have knocked the skin off my own knuckles against the tree in the scrimmage Never mind, man," returned Lawless, "there are worse misfortunes happen at sea; a little sticking-plaster will set all to rights again. —  Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil
• It was glistening in several coats of spar-varnish, and so light and delicate was its spidery frame that, as John reached out to take it in his hand, the exhalation of his breath set it swaying away from him My word, it's a light boy all right!" —  Around the World in Ten Days
• The cables are wrapped in cotton duck soaked in oxidized oil and varnish, and are sheathed in sheet iron. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
• Too many Americans buy portable parlors with sixty-seven coats of varnish, and are then shocked and grieved to discover when too late that said parlors have gizzards just like any other automobile and that they should have been looked after I said there were one hundred automobiles in Homeburg. —  Homeburg Memories
• When the varnish is nearly cool, stir in the turpentine. —  Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.

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