Though how can any one be rationally expected to stick to anything in this weather, except, perhaps, the newly varnished surface of his desk?

In every story was a chamber finely varnished, and a gallery round, embellished with paintings.

In the midst of this place, they had erected a great and very high awning of cloth, supported on wooden pillars; at one end of which was an imperial canopy of state, erected on two richly varnished pillars, between which stood a great chair of state as if for the emperor, and other seats on both sides.

They were mainly first and second class coaches, varnished outside and equipped with upholstered compartments where the troopers took their luxurious ease.

The Grindwell Governing Machine (though a patent has been taken out for it in Europe, and it is thought everything of by royal heads and the gilded flies that buzz about them) is really an old machine, nearly worn out, and every now and then patched up and painted and varnished anew.

Four minutes later there is a stamping of fat men in heavy overcoats round the brightly varnished 'bus.

The houses are brightly varnished and surrounded with red and white railings and fences.

She regrets that Human advancement has no moments when conservative reforming intellect takes a nap, while imagination does a little toryism by the sly, revelling in regret that dear old brown, crumbling, picturesque inefficiency is everywhere giving place to sick-and-span, new-painted, new-varnished efficiency, which will yield endless diagrams, plans, elevations and sections; but, alas!