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It was varnishing day at the Academy, and she had gone down to put the last touches on her big portrait—the one of "Madame X." that she had begun in Paris the year before.

From The Fortunes of Oliver Horn by Smith, Francis Hopkinson

"It's a pity this isn't at the north pole," said the professor, who was varnishing dried fish in the cabin, where this conversation took place.

From The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic by Goldfrap, John Henry