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    varnished


    1. She had noticed the paneling of the back wall was embossed and varnished like you would find in a high-class office


    2. The ship was about 35 metres long and varnished to look like glass


    3. He handed them a very nice bottle, grown over with polished and varnished dried vines


    4. When near the end of that summer it was varnished and rigged, the little family launched it for its maiden voyage


    5. When that deck was completely sanded, they varnished


    6. In a not so surprising coincidence George finished his tower project just when they had completely varnished the decks


    7. As they exited the front door the mellow luster of the varnished front porch shone up at them in the mid-day light


    8. The wood was now sanded smooth, varnished and polished


    9. done, delusions by which they have varnished it for the eye of their constituents


    10. Ted painted the walls with Andy, while Harriet and I stained and varnished the cabinet doors throughout the house

    11. ” She walked towards him, her varnished fingers stroking the neck of the wine bottle suggestively


    12. The first impression she got of the inside was most favorable to Ingrid, the house having been built to quite luxurious standards, with lots of varnished wood and brass used


    13. The oratory was made of plain wood, varnished and simple on the inside, white and simple on the outside


    14. The varnished wood bore the scratched markings of decades of young revelers, the modern-day equivalent of ancient cave paintings


    15. Rejuvenated by this new found purpose, the creatures poured out over every inch of the surface of the planet building and cleaning spotless surfaces that looked like varnished marble, shiny glass windows and freshly bleached tile floors


    16. It was while I was reflecting on their probable scorched and shrivelled condition, and at the same time was eagerly passing him some butter that I don't think he wanted but that I was frantically afraid he might want, that my zealous arm swept the milk-jug off the table, and it fell on the varnished floor, and with a hideous clatter of what seemed like malicious satisfaction smashed itself to atoms


    17. The immense light beat on the varnished wooden face of the house and on the shut shutters of all the unused rooms


    18. She was, however, taken away--it seemed a sort of sweeping of her away--through glass doors, down a carpetless varnished passage into a spare bedroom, and commanded to put herself on the high white bed with her head a little lower than her feet


    19. ” The librarian laughed and pointed at a varnished set of oak cabinets containing dozens of small drawers


    20. varnished timbered hulls, preferably of old Kauri and Huon pine

    21. Moreover, his timidity had worn off by contact with his gay companions, and he returned to the provinces despising everyone who had not with varnished shoes trodden the asphalt of the boulevards


    22. The next morning, at the open window, and humming on his balcony, Leon himself varnished his pumps with several coatings


    23. The table was of wood painted and varnished to imitate jasper, and the pedestal on which it stood was of the same material, with four eagles' claws projecting from it to support the weight more steadily


    24. " Albert was drawing on the satin pantaloon over his black trousers and varnished boots


    25. Whether one looked at the walls with the old-fashioned varnished oak paper, or at the glossy piano standing across the corner near the white-curtained window, at the shining oak chairs or through the open casement doors that led into the shady garden beyond, the dominating impression one received was that everything was exquisitely clean


    26. Cavalcanti, dressed in black, like one of Goethe's heroes, with varnished shoes and white silk open-worked stockings, passed a white and tolerably nice-looking hand through his light hair, and so displayed a sparkling diamond, that in spite of Monte Cristo's advice the vain young man had been unable to resist putting on his little finger


    27. He bestowed the same attention upon the cambric front of a shirt, which had considerably changed in color since his entrance into the prison, and he polished his varnished boots with the corner of a handkerchief embroidered with initials surmounted by a coronet


    28. Two stone steps worn away by the friction of many feet led to the door, which was made of three planks; the door had never been painted or varnished, so great cracks yawned in it during the dry season to close again when the rains came on


    29. Stepan Arkadyevitch, going down, carefully took the canvas cover off his varnished gun case with his own


    30. Everything he saw from the carriage window, everything in that cold pure air, in the pale light of the sunset, was as fresh, and gay, and strong as he was himself: the roofs of the houses shining in the rays of the setting sun, the sharp outlines of fences and angles of buildings, the figures of passers-by, the carriages that met him now and then, the motionless green of the trees and grass, the fields with evenly drawn furrows of potatoes, and the slanting shadows that fell from the houses, and trees, and bushes, and even from the rows of potatoes—everything was bright like a pretty landscape just finished and freshly varnished

    31. The shirt collar, cut low in the neck, the big bow of his cravat, the style of his clothing, from the round hat to the varnished shoes, suggested an idea of French elegance; but otherwise he was the very type of a fair Spanish creole


    32. ‘When can I reckon on receiving information from you?’ he asked, moving towards the door, his eyes and his varnished boots shining


    33. He was dressed in black broadcloth, a tall man, towering over the officers who stood varnished boots


    34. How can we tramping barefoot into battle? How can we tolerate them with their champagnes and endure these scavengers in our midst with their varnished boots when our boys are their pates of Strasbourg when our soldiers are shivering about their camp fires and gnawing moldy bacon? I call upon every loyal Confederate to cast them out


    35. And the end of the road his varnished boots upon a bitter road where hunger tramped with tireless stride and was death


    36. But as for enlisting—when I think of joining the army in varnished “You misunderstand


    37. which ran from wall to wall, red velvet portieres and the newest of highly varnished Within, the house was furnished as Scarlett had desired, with thick red carpeting black-walnut furniture, carved wherever there was an inch for carving and upholstered in such slick horsehair that ladies had to deposit themselves thereon with great care for fear of sliding off


    38. After casting his eyes on the attic-walls covered with that yellow paper sprinkled with bouquets so well known in dance-houses, on the fireplace of ribbed stone whose very look was chilling, on the chairs of yellow wood with varnished cane seats that seemed to have more than the usual


    39. The climbing fire lit up their faces and threw its ruddy glare upon the pillared tree-trunks of their forest temple, and upon the varnished foliage and festooning vines


    40. The wide expanse that opened out before the heights on which the Russian batteries stood guarding the bridge was at times veiled by a diaphanous curtain of slanting rain, and then, suddenly spread out in the sunlight, far-distant objects could be clearly seen glittering as though freshly varnished

    41. At regular distances, on the bare tables, there were large, varnished bowls in which the pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was punished


    42. You desire fine black cloth, varnished shoes, to have your hair curled and sweet-smelling oils on your


    43. Cosette was, moreover, passing through that dangerous period, the fatal phase of feminine revery abandoned to itself, in which the isolated heart of a young girl resembles the tendrils of the vine which cling, as chance directs, to the capital of a marble column or to the post of a wine-shop: A rapid and decisive moment, critical for every orphan, be she rich or poor, for wealth does not prevent a bad choice; misalliances are made in very high circles, real misalliance is that of souls; and as many an unknown young man, without name, without birth, without fortune, is a marble column which bears up a temple of grand sentiments and grand ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who has polished boots and varnished words, if looked at not outside, but inside, a thing which is reserved for his wife, is nothing more than a block obscurely haunted by violent, unclean, and vinous passions; the post of a drinking-shop


    44. chasuble, the law and God no longer suffice; they must be eked out by the Postilion de Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the Norman horses with their tails knotted up, false galloons, varnished hat, long powdered locks, an enormous whip and tall boots


    45. The hum level in the room suddenly increased as several ancillary bass driver units, mounted in sedately carved and varnished cabinet speakers around the room, cut in to give Deep Thought’s voice a little more power


    46. The old man turned round, and, seeing Nekhludoff, he moved the lappets of his coat off the varnished seat next to him, and said, in a friendly manner:


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    Synonyms for "varnished"

    stained varnished

    "varnished" definitions

    having a coating of stain or varnish