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The table was flanked on one side by a gaudy bureau, manufactured for profit and not for service, the thin veneer of which was shed day by day.
In 1815 the differences between Flemish and Walloon were to a large extent concealed beneath a veneer of French culture and French manners.
The yacht seemed to be veneered with a soft luminous paint that gave us the appearance of a ghostly ship skimming over a ghostly ocean.
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 furniture, veneer, handle, vehicle, automobile and agricultural implement industries all are in competition for hardwood timber.
Nor did they talk like gentlemen, despite the fact that there was nothing offensive in their bearing and that the veneer of ordinary social nicety was theirs.
Veneers were cut and applied, not as some have supposed for the purpose of economy, but because by this means the most beautifully marked or figured specimens of the woods could be chosen, and a much richer and more decorative effect produced than would be possible when only solid timber was used.
No varnish and veneer of scholarship, no command of the tricks of logic and rhetoric, can ever make you a positive force in the world.
My description of that last meeting of ours is a rather flippant one, I fancy, but some feminine faces are improved by powder, and some men's sentiments by a veneer of assumed cheerfulness.
Various styles of grafting were employed, of which the common cleft and the veneer or side graft were perhaps the most satisfactory.
Latent barbarism that peeked through the veneer of intelligence and civilization was set to push the world to its final conflagration.
We seem to have come to a time of civilization in which there is much surface refinement and a widespread veneer of superficial knowledge, but in which there is little enthusiasm and in which the great aim and object of teaching and of training is but too little realized.
When necessity demanded, Tarzan of the Apes sloughed the thin veneer of his civilization and with it the hampering apparel that was its badge.
With loss of property he had lost much of that curious veneer of indolence, utter disregard of consequences, which had always been his.
Its tarnished veneer and red face looked like an old honest friend, so Will declared, and he doubted not that his wife would rejoice as he did.
These young fellows may have hearts of gold, but their real manhood was overlaid with a veneer of rudeness that could not commend them to the admiration of cultivated persons.
The veneer of classical refinement and humanistic urbanity, which for a time had hidden the natural savagery of the Roman nobles, wore away.
In it the contiguous copper plates are separated by thin veneers of wood, and the acid is poured on to, or off, the plates by a quarter revolution of an axis, to which both the trough containing the plates, and another trough to collect and hold the liquid, are fixed.
How thin a veneering of "chivalry" covered the essential brutality of the code under which such encounters were possible we shall see.
They did this for tens of hundreds or thousands of years, and can we expect a few coatings of the veneer that we politely call civilization, which after all is only one of our conventions that vanish in any human stress such as war, to kill out the human impulse it seems to hide?
The sanctuary which stands hidden behind this incongruous veneer is, as represented on the coins, in a very archaic style, and is by no means wanting in originality or dignity.
She had a perfect village simplicity and wonder at life, as to a part of her innermost self, which was only veneered by her contact with the world.
Despite its veneer of brazen effrontery, the face, with its great mouth and two days' growth of beard, was haggard and weary looking.
"Sure he has," Feinstein replied nonchalantly, scratching a parlor match on the veneered shelf under the cashier's window.
His nature, large, impulsive, scornful of small complexities, was stripped bare of the veneer of culture by which its simplicity had been overlaid.
Essentially an idealist, his character was the result of a veneering of insufficient culture on a groundwork of raw impulse.
It is then grained and decorated in the usual manner, and when finished has the same appearance as the veneers, will wear as well, and can be finished at much less cost.
The seasoned boards are covered with a double veneer, designed to counteract all the tendencies to warp; and the surface is most laboriously polished.
The words furnish and veneer, again, are doublets which do not resemble each other very closely either in sound or in sense.
All his ripeness of thought, all his philosophy, gleaned under the thin veneer of civilization, had been swept away by the tidal wave of battle.
Yelled his followers, their deep-lying hatred of Americans now stripped of its veneer of politeness, and lying exposed in all its ugliness.
Differentiate between socially noble and ignoble traits, between social and educational veneer and sterling inherent capacity.
There we discover that this poet's vision has pierced straight through the city's veneer of ugly commonplace to the beauty shimmering beneath.
They would know instinctively that under his veneer of good manners was something coarse and crude, as she did, and they would politely snub him.
Such the old man was once, and all the elements of his broken youth are clearly visible under the hapless veneer of time for the one who has an eye to see.
She asked, and for the first time I heard her voice sobered, without the coquetry, which must after all have been a very thin veneer.
Take off the thin veneering of a white skin, substitute in its stead the real African ebony, and then place him side by side with one of the above-mentioned men.
Being furnished by a workman with a piece of veneer, no other tool than a penknife and a wooden rule, would be necessary.
"No varnish or veneer of scholarship, no command of the tricks of logic or rhetoric, can ever make you a positive force in the world;" but your character can.
His clerical veneer had fallen from him; the man beneath was singularly human, likable, and as simple as Dolph Dennison himself.
Yet ever and anon an allusion of taste would betray him, and at no time did I fail to see that his roughness was only a veneer.
He was particularly bitter, and it really seemed in that general lesion of the moral fiber that civilization was only a makeshift, a veneer of hypocrisy.
His mood had changed, but I knew he was not a whit less dangerous because the veneer of suave mockery masked the savagery of the Slav.
He accepted because Desmond made a point of his so doing; but he was quite aware that beneath the veneer of the Demon's genial smile lay implacable hatred and resentment.
The relationship between cipher and zero is perhaps better disguised than that between furnish and veneer, though this is by no means obvious.
Flushed cheeks and glistening eyes were the only indications that much was at stake; social veneer concealed the real anxiety of the players, but a hush of nervous tension pervaded the room.
My friends, civilization may be a thin veneer, and the world today may be slimy with hypocrisy, but no man is justified in killing lions to feed dogs.
I happened to be free for a month or so at that time, so I could give some attention to the purchasing and delivery of both veneer stock and walnut for gun stocks.
It occurred to him how quickly the child within could penetrate the veneer of a man, and by resurfacing, claim hegemony over adult thoughts.
He could not even prove the dominant child trapped in the veneer of manhood for himself, let alone others, when from one minute to the next he was a different being entirely thinking different thoughts or seemed so as any object in variant angles of light.
Clark claims it is necessary to secure a dependable supply of spruce for the pulp mills, and hard wood for the veneer works.
It is used either in the form of solid wood cut from lumber or in the form of plywood made by gluing sheets of plain or figured veneer to both sides of a core.
A varnished patent leather has always a cheap look, and the coat of veneer is only applied as a last resort, to hide the cracks.
It is also used for veneer picnic plates and butter dishes, although it is not as popular for this class of commodity as are yellow and paper birch, maple and beech.
The studs should be cut from fairly stout veneer, and for the present purpose, that of the back, usually of sycamore, the same kind of wood is preferable to any other.
The glue will be seen oozing out between the surfaces of the table and its veneer; this can be wiped off easily, and save the trouble of removal when dry and hard.
It is a relic of medieval times overlaid with a veneer of twentieth-century civilization; a city of violent contrasts and glaring anachronisms.
Very, very thin upon us all is the veneer of civilization; very, very swift is the reversion to the primitive when opportunity presents.
The veneer of manners which he had acquired with so much trouble had worn off in a moment, and the careful speech, the rigid insistence on aspirates, to speak, took to its heels.
To some his manner might have been pleasing, but to one with any degree of penetration, the crafty, scheming nature under the thin veneer was very apparent.
The whole is then toothed over and laid down in the same manner as ordinary veneer, the ground being first rubbed over with garlic, or some acid, to remove any traces of grease.
His cool and careless words, which her knowledge of him taught her were the veneering for an inexorable resolution, gave her a shock of disappointment.
As a matter of honest fact, he was as sentimental as a woman, and was forever trying to hide the fact behind a thin veneer of nonchalance and bluster.
Innocent of paint, veneering, varnish or tablecloth, the table announced itself unmistakably and honestly pine and of the plainest workmanship.
The next day proved stormy, and the driving sleet froze upon the trees and bound their limbs and boughs together with an icy veneer.
Now he forgot his longing for mahogany veneer and individual chairs and would gladly have boarded a freight car, provided there were in it a lamp and a stove.
He had a sort of spurious veneer and ingratiating manner, which was at variance with his hard, square, passion-scarred countenance.
The primeval man had broken through the veneer of civilization, and their nerves were tingling with longing for the fight.
To be as he had fancied she would wish, he had struggled, denied, kept himself clean, sought minutely for the proper veneer; and so far he had kept his record straight.
Of course, Sylvia, like her placid mother, like everyone, was, beneath the veneer even of endless generations, necessarily primitive.
The streets were plastered with a grimy veneer of city snow, melting fast, but I pushed the limits of safety and ran a couple of lights since the traffic was spotty.
In spite of his outer veneer of civilization, in spite of his pretended conversion to a gentler creed, he still believed at heart in the vindictive and cruel goddess of the crater.
He was not precisely an Adonis; there was something rough, almost uncouth, about him in spite of the veneer his money had brought.
The use of this wood was characteristic of old American-made cases, while those of old English make were veneered on oak.
He hates veneer about him in every particular and only as he throws off every vestige of it does he enjoy to the full his world.
A picturesque group you would have said, whose air of frivolity seemed but a masque beneath the veneer of which lay sorrow.
Transports, veneered with railroad iron and protected upon the outer edges with bales of hay and cotton, were loaded with supplies and started upon their way preceded by a flotilla of gunboats.
While I have no wish to counsel insincerity, there is a wide difference between that offensive veneer and the pure metal of consideration for the feelings of a stranger within one's gate.
He hasn't the faintest sign of that veneer so common to distinguished men, which is most eloquently described by the slang term "front."
Verily this Southern hospitality is no vain thing, no mere empty show, or ingratiating veneer to make a spurious article seem real.
The adjacent side streets and the open space in front of the house were crowded with champing horses and smartly veneered carriages.
The thought came like an avalanche, stripping away the veneer of beauty from the face of the world, revealing the scarred rock and crushed soil beneath.
In consonance with this, we find with Stradivari that the thin plate or veneer from which the ribs have been cut is not thick, but of accurate and equal measurement along its course.
Also, where all dwell under the shadow in a land where the veneer of civilization wears thin, and the primitive passions show through, the Briton casts aside much of his normal reticence.
Outwardly her training still controlled her; but beneath her quiet gestures, her calm and orderly movements, she felt that the veneer of civilization had been stripped from the primitive woman.
The latter are summed up in conventionality, custom and law, all so relatively recent in time as to supply a very thin veneer over the primitive tendencies which have held sway for ages.
Looking back on a year in its midst, memory, aroused by present contrasts, registered sham, insincerity, deceit, illusion, veneer as dominant notes in civilization.
I should pass to the ocean where monotony compels introspection, and finally to the great center of civilization where the veneer covers up all truths.
In furniture and interior woodwork, the curly walnut, found in the old stumps of trees cut long before, is especially sought for veneering panels.
Baskets made of quarter-inch staves rather than veneer are smooth and durable, but the investment is rather heavy unless dumping is resorted to.
She knew all that she knew superficially, and she soon became fearful lest Claire should pierce, by a sort of adroit ignorance, her veneer of academic sham.
The conscience is blunted if not destroyed, the veneer of civilization is stripped off, the white man reverts to savagery.
By this he had learned from the new and finer world into which his talent had brought him that Cora had but a thin veneer of spurious refinement after all.
He is the first who has found the livid veneer, the pale complexion of distinguished company which causes all his heroes to be recognized.
Beneath the veneer with which his self-enforced austerity had overlaid his emotions, he felt his pulses leap, and was bitterly chagrined at being thus attracted.
The Marshal was pacing backwards and forwards in an agitated manner, and the King himself was leaning against a high desk, beating a tattoo with his fingers on the veneer.
Only there seemed to be a certain natural brutality about him, under a thin veneer of culture and good breeding, that repelled us all dreadfully from the moment we saw him.
He has in his third closet two huge pedestals, veneered in rosewood, and divided within, like cabinets of coins, into several layers.
Now it was as though he had sloughed off the veneer so that the primitive man beneath it appeared, which is a thing that not infrequently happens in such places as the swamps he was toiling in.
All the separate parts of each piece of furniture are got out by machinery and cleaned up, veneered, and put together by hand workmen.