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Any roofed-over shed or shack, with doors or not, is what one generally has to put up with to-day, for housing his resplendent brassy and varnishy automobile.

From The Automobilist Abroad by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

In the gauzy and fluffy and varnishy little drawing-room Reardon found a youngish gentleman already in conversation with the widow and her daughter.

From New Grub Street by Gissing, George

It leaves the pasted scrap-page flexible, adheres firmly, dries quickly, and does not give a varnishy look to even the thinnest print paper.

From Paper and Printing Recipes A Handy Volume of Practical Recipes, Concerning the Every-Day Business of Stationers, Printers, Binders, and the Kindred Trades by Ford, J. Sawtelle

Smilax, or nothing; and yet I don't like that hard, shiny, varnishy look of smilax either.

From Bride Roses by Howells, William Dean

As he stole past the joiner's on that sunny morning, when wood was resinous and pungent of odour, he was suddenly conscious of a varnishy smell, and felt a misgiving without knowing why.

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas