The result would have been to stifle those free manifestations of the literary art under a rigorous piety which was almost always but the thin varnish of hypocrisy.

The garden-path stretched downward from his feet, gleaming like the track of a snail; the roof of the little well (mostly dry), the well-cover, the top rail of the garden-gate, were varnished with the same dull liquid glaze; while, far away in the vale, a faint whiteness of more than usual extent showed that the rivers were high in the meads.

Brunswick black, which is an excellent varnish for grates, may be prepared in the following manner: [Illustration: STOVE BRUSHES.]

Unfortunately, I habitually used copal varnish as a medium.

When Skis are put away for the summer, the upper as well as the running surfaces should be oiled or re-varnished in order to preserve the wood.

You'll have to cover 'em up with new paper, won't you, or shall you let me put a coat of varnish on 'em?" Mrs. Carey shuddered internally.

Or the carpenter could put a coat of varnish over it and stop all the blow-holes.

Let a glass thread, no larger than a coarse hair, be affixed by means of some quickly drying varnish to the tip of the laterally inclined stem of one of the young Morning-Glory plants in the schoolroom.

Our ride to Ayr presented nothing very remarkable; and, indeed, a cloudy and rainy day takes the varnish off the scenery, and causes a woful diminution in the beauty and impressiveness of everything we see.

These rods are covered with an insulating varnish from their origin to above the point where they issue from the liquid.

He had found by experiment that it was impossible to make such a scratch upon the varnish without the exercise of considerable force.

Purchasing our oil and varnish at wholesale prices, we defy competition.

In his room was an iron box varnished like the safe.

If there was any one thing that he shone in, it was rustling coffin varnish during the early prohibition days along the Kansas border.