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If you bring him anything that ain't real mahogany, his blows'll be sure to make the veneering fly.
On days when there was much steam to his cooking, the harvest of veneer from the bureau was unusually generous.
Before the day was over, they could remove three others, all suitable for veneer and worth far more than this.
No one could tell at what moment the thin veneer of civilization might peel off and reveal the underlying savage.
His own personal veneer of antagonism against woman was purely artificial, and yet only a few had guessed it.
Justice Mellor, after reading it, decided to grant a writ which they had determined not to grant if the book had merely a veneer of science and was "calculated to arouse the passions".
It is now difficult for the furniture factories and veneer plants to secure enough raw materials.
The veneer industry provides furniture manufacturers, musical instrument factories, box makers and the automobile industry with high-grade material.
Not how to live for show, not how to veneer successfully, but how to get the most good out of life.
All the veneer knowledge of grammar had left her, and she spoke with a broad, natural accent.
If we look at a square piece of ivory with one eye alone, we cannot tell whether it is a scale of veneer, or the side of a cube, or the base of a pyramid, or the end of a prism.
They help on that sapping and undermining of the ancient, sturdy simplicity, the solid oak of country character, replacing it with veneer.
Poor victims of a civilization that hides its brutality beneath a veneer of culture and of grace, for them individually there is, alas!
Large pieces crack more than smaller ones, quartered lumber less than that sawed through and through, thin pieces, especially veneers, less than thicker boards.
It is the source of considerable loss in the fancy veneer industry, as the veneer from valuable logs so affected drops to pieces.
All these elements in folklore, magic and belief would endure, in the peasant class, under the veneer of civilization.
When my time was out in the spring, I bought some parts of clocks, mahogany, veneers, etc., and commenced in a small shop, business for myself.
I have worked there a great many nights till twelve o'clock and even two in the morning, sawing veneers for my men to use the next day.
In 1825, we built a small factory on the stream below the shop where I sawed my veneers two or three years before, but there was no road to it or bridge across the stream.
It is little more than veneer, and in the crises of life the Celt turns to the ancient belief of his race.
That which adheres simply to the surface of rock and child is veneer, which the testing circumstance will rub off.
They testify that the older forms of politeness were an integral element of the feudal system and were too often a thin veneer of manner by no means expressive of heart interest.
Never had his civilization been more than a veneer put on for the sake of her he loved because he thought it made her happier to see him thus.
They were in some respects simple, and the complex life of the cities was unknown to most of them, but they had seen human nature stripped of its veneer in the bush and understood it well.
That outward veneering, which is so prevalent, can never be even a poor imitation of this type of the true, the genuine.
He was passing the boundary which divides the old Adam, which is in every man, from the veneer of early training.
I am to be carefully coached for each club meeting; I am to be veneered with a thin skin of glittering knowledge.
She had no wish for the man she loved to come into contact with this savage, veneered by civilization.
Now I have before said that an intellectual culture may be, so to speak, veneered upon us, but a spiritual culture must come from within outward.
These qualities he had seemed to show before we were married, but they proved to be only a veneer which soon wore off.
And the fact that, so frequently he puts over it a thick veneer of materialism does not affect its quality.
Our party voted you about thirty miles of roads to repair thoroughly, and you know that although you only veneered them, we said nothing.
And Nellie had shown him things which had struck him dumb and broken through the veneer of satisfaction that of late had covered over his old doubts and fears.
Socialism is not a thing which can be glued like a piece of veneering over this rotten social system of ours.
Life has no veneering for them; they look hard realities in the face and meet them as they can.
The veneer on the table, the turned legs of the chairs, the carpet, the curtains, are all products of machinery.
The girl's story had impressed him more than he had cared to own, and there was much of the human in him, in spite of the diplomat's veneer.
The thin veneer of civilization (thinner than ever when Henry is hungry) was fast wearing into holes.
And when stripped of the veneer of civilization he was but a passionate, primitive creature, like numbers of others of his class and age.
It was bravely said, but I knew from the careful repression of his tone that his hardness was a brittle veneer.
They were brilliant with hanging pendants and the side walls were all veneered with the same white and crystalline formation.
As the cheap boards are merely a padding veneered on either side with a thin coating of smooth paper, little scraping is required to develop a fuzzy surface upon which it is impossible to work.
There is integrity in every detail of construction, and the absence of veneer gives to the pupils a definition of honesty and sincerity.
Indeed, no one can fail to wonder at the marvelous skill of architectural engineering which can run up a building of twenty stories, the walls of which are merely a veneer or curtain.
Deep down below our consciousness, far beneath the veneer of civilization, there is an instinct, relic of the vigilant savage days, that warns us of personal danger.
No one knows better than a doctor what is beneath the veneer of social convention and personal hypocrisy.
After all, we are pitiful creatures, and, under the thin veneer, like enough to the beasts.
He is an ancient, and the rich old mahogany is neglected for the new and glittering veneer.
That old conviction of tragedy underlying the surface of things, like wood under its veneer, was emphasized.
The Revolution made a mold which, perhaps, instead of being impressed upon succeeding generations of immigrants may have only given a veneer to them.
They passed under arches of vines, between huge dying trees covered to the top with winding rings of ivy that clung to the venerable trunks, veneered with a green and yellow crust.
The second coat is then put on; which, after eight days' drying, is also scraped away, until the surface of the veneer is laid bare again.
They held hers, seeming to pierce the acquired veneer of reserve to the guarded places beneath.
Quickly and clearly they see through any veneer of democracy the stranger may assume, to conceal an assumption of superiority.
Recent centuries have cast only a thin veneer of modern thought over essentially medieval conceptions of national rights and duties.
She knew instinctively that any such course would at once break down that thin veneer of restraint he was exercising.
In the eyes of the family I have always been frivolous and worldly, and though they criticize these qualities of mine, underneath their righteous veneer I discover them marveling.
He does not see the veneer of circumstances, though the real society girl would see nothing else in her humble artistic rival.
Whispered the man, and his weak face suddenly relaxed, so that, oddly, the old refinement shone out through the new, vulgar veneer.
The several pieces of wood were not only of different shapes and sizes, but they were as thin as the thinnest veneer; yet the box had been formed by simply joining them together.
Smithy had been fed on big words, and very exact language so long, that as yet his association with other boys less particular had failed to rub away any of the veneer.
When veneer is used for barrels and boxes it affords a saving of nearly two-thirds in the amount of wood required.
Our rooms are divided from one another by partitions of paper or the thinnest veneer, which can be partially drawn aside so that the rooms may be thrown into one.
The best doors are now made with cores of pine covered on the visible sides with heavy veneer.
Then there would be two to one, and once the outer veneer was broken through, there was no saying to what extremes of abuse, of threatening, even of violence itself, they might descend.
A curved line will cut all the intersections, and a template made of cardboard, sheet zinc, or veneer, should be made to this shape.
This method is often used previous to veneering the face side of the box with rare veneers, and it is also useful for repair work.
Nature, too, runs fullest in the veins of those who live with her naturally, aloof from the veneer of society.
However, even in orchard plantings, the stumps alone are valuable for beautifully patterned veneers.
Underneath the thin veneer of party differences, the worker sees the class identity of the great political parties, and cries out, "A plague on both your houses!"
Human nature, in truth, is the same in all ages, and what is called culture is only a thin veneer.
The circular facing is best made by first sawing a segment of the circle of the size wanted and then veneering the outer surface of this.
How much better to have had a thin tablet or veneering of marble or iron adjusted to the back of the book.
Those who knew her best declared that her stern demeanor was a professional veneer, put on in the classroom for the sake of discipline, and that underneath she was intensely human and feminine.
After all, civilization is only a veneer, and the old, elementary, savage feelings lie dormant in it all.
The association and companionship of cultured men has given Mark Twain a sort of professional veneer, but it could not give him fine instincts or nice discriminations or elevated tastes.
And now Peter showed the savage which lay within him under the thin veneer of civilization.
It was expected that the trunk would show figured curly grain and plans were made to have at least a part of the log cut into veneer.
Some shorter lengths are utilized by the veneer industry, but those lengths usually command a lower unit price.
They are generally set in a frame of oak, leaving five or six inches (which would otherwise be covered with carving or veneer) for the embroidery.
He breakfasted slowly, lingering over his coffee, and then half reluctantly the last trace of civilization's veneer was cast aside.
The truth was, when a man loved, every other man became his enemy, not excepting her father: the primordial instinct has survived all the applications of veneer.
It is excellent for veneer boxes, and that is probably one of the most important places it fills.
Before proceeding further, there will necessarily be the preparations made in connection with the piece of veneer that is to be glued to the back.
When neatly done, the edging of the veneer will decline gradually in thickness, and die off all round.
For this a piece of almost any veneer cut to the exact flow or drawing of the line may be used as a guide or template.
In cutting the small veneer of wood to be placed in position, care should be taken that when fitted in, the grain should run as nearly as possible at right angles with that of the part to be repaired.
If carefully managed the knife point is preferable, a piece of stiff card or very thin veneer may be cut to the width, bent over and the point run down each side.
Take some moderately firm veneer and after careful measurement cut pieces to fit as exactly as possible the parts answering to those of your own instrument that are missing.
The process may be adopted for the other parts instead of using the veneer, the latter would, however, be useful as a permanent guide or template, keeping its shape.
We must admit that civilization is at least partially veneer; polish does wonders for the appearance of folks as well as of furniture.
The men who have witnessed incidents of this kind will no longer continue to believe in the veneer of modern life, for they will know that the true savage lies hidden somewhere underneath.
During cold winters the spray covers the grass and trees in the park along the cliff with a delicate veneer of ice, while below the Falls it is tossed up and frozen into a solid arch.
Those vast pine forests, extending for miles and miles, actual mines of wealth, are a mere veneer to granite rocks.
Sometimes it is altogether assumed, sometimes it is only a thin veneer adopted in obedience to the decree of fashion.
The gentry gave themselves airs of superiority, really as if their characters were as good as their manners; but they did not impose upon the people, who despised them for their veneer.
"It shows that the refined part of me must be just a thin veneer on the outside," said Elizabeth, her eyes twinkling.
Its resemblance to the regiment which bore the name before the war is superficial, a thin veneer.
It is in this following that the polished veneer which makes the outward Paris showed what may lie beneath.
Circular saws of pulp are in use which cut thin slices of veneer so smoothly that they can be used without planing.