Which preposition to use with veneering
Is it just the veneer of education and travel and environment?" "You can hardly call that a veneer, little one.
In this day of ours, ablaze with learning, and culture,veneered with a fine civilization, our laws are complex beyond all knowing and expression; man regulates his conductto them,and is as virtuous, and honest as the law compels him to be.
You and I, reader, have an exceedingly thin veneering of civilization, and in the presence of such scenes of diabolical atrocity would slip it off as a snake sheds his skin.
the polish was a thin veneer on very cheap and unseasoned wood.
After all, what is the highest civilization but a thin veneer over natural appetites?
At Narragansett every one is veneered for the occasion,every seam, scar, and furrow is hidden by paint, powder, and rouge; the duchess may be a cook, but the count who is a butler gains nothing by exposing her.
I have seen Parisian beauties that had a coat of white veneering over them an inch thick, and out here in this country I have seen so-called cracker-jacks that ought to be doing the mountain-of-flesh act in the Ringling side-show.
It is the source of considerable loss in the fancy veneer industry, as the veneer from valuable logs so affected drops to pieces.
Veneers in first-rate style.