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Brethren of St. Francis and their clients, which still roughen the pavement of Santa Croce at Florence, and recall the varnished polychrome decoration of those Greek monuments in connexion with the worn-out blazonry of the funeral brasses of England and Flanders.

Greek Studies: a Series of Essays Walter Pater 1866

Lay long talking with my wife in bed, then up with great content and to my chamber to set right a picture or two, Lovett having sent me yesterday Sancta Clara's head varnished, which is very fine, and now my closet is so full stored, and so fine, as I would never desire to have it better.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

Lay long talking with my wife in bed, then up with great content and to my chamber to set right a picture or two, Lovett having sent me yesterday Sancta Clara's head varnished, which is very fine, and now my closet is so full stored, and so fine, as I would never desire to have it better.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

Lovett having sent me yesterday Sancta Clara's head varnished, which is very fine, and now my closet is so full stored, and so fine, as I would never desire to have it better.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, December 1666 Pepys, Samuel 1666

Either that or they adopt a look that I can only describe as varnished and metropolitan.

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... is itself but a mixed good, if not far more a corrupting influence, the hectic of disease, not the blossom of health, and a nation so distinguished more fitly to be called a varnished than a polished people, where civilization is not grounded in cultivation, in the harmonious development of those qualities and faculties that characterize our humanity.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas FREDERICK M. BARNARD 1968

It is merely a kind of varnished silk, and its manufacture is very easy.

Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Various

-- This plaster is a kind of varnished silk, and its manufacture is very easy.

One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed C. A. Bogardus

They are the ones whom the French call "varnished," which is a way of saying that projectiles glance off their anatomy.

My Second Year of the War Frederick Palmer 1915

It happened before I went in for hydrogen gas balloons, all of varnished silk, doubled and lined, and all that, and fit for voyages of days instead of mere hours.

An Adventure in the Upper Sea 2010