Thin layer as of wood

Usage examples of veneer.

Smith gasped, his Highland accent breaking through the English veneer, as it always did in stressful situations.

He had been a good scholar in college, not so much by hard study as by skilful veneering, and had taken great pains to stand well with the Faculty, at least one of whom, Byles Gridley, A.

Briefly, putting two and two together, six sixteen which he pointedly turned a deaf ear to, Antonio and so forth, jockeys and esthetes and the tattoo which was all the go in the seventies or thereabouts even in the house of lords because early in life the occupant of the throne, then heir apparent, the other members of the upper ten and other high personages simply following in the footsteps of the head of the state, he reflected about the errors of notorieties and crowned heads running counter to morality such as the Cornwall case a number of years before under their veneer in a way scarcely intended by nature, a thing good Mrs Grundy, as the law stands, was terribly down on though not for the reason they thought they were probably whatever it was except women chiefly who were always fiddling more or less at one another it being largely a matter of dress and all the rest of it.

Sometimes he felt as if he toiled in the German salt mines of the soul for no result and that public revels such as May Day stripped away a thin veneer of goodliness to show the evil pits of paganism lurking under the skin of everyday life.

Aubrey paused before a door that was merely a dull veneered sheet of hardboard, and knocked.

Selection and Preparation for Use, Carpentry, Veneering, Paper-Making, Bookbinding, Printing Rollers, Hectographs, Match Manufacture, Sandpaper, etc.

She was in her mid-thirties now, with straightened hair, a lineless face whose oldest features were her dark, watchful eyes, and the well-tailored veneer of a professional woman.

He was rollicking, noisy, good-natured, but under the boyish veneer was a hard indomitable nature.

The Sunhoose fire wi the wee twirly bits in the veneered teak surrounds has seen better days.

But, seeing that the thin veneer of modesty with which every woman of the world is furnished goes but a very little way below the surface, they began rather to enjoy this unedifying episode, and at bottom were hugely delighted-- feeling themselves in their element, furthering the schemes of lawless love with the gusto of a gourmand cook who prepares supper for another.

Although he had acquired an autocratic manner and social veneer, there were still remnants of that eager young captain he had once been.

Image is everything, sure, but Bonny suddenly has the spiteful hope that Mona is bucktoothed and fish-eyed, eczemaed and jug-eared, when you peel back her digital veneer.

Felipe said, lifting his head, looking up at Lo Manto, his face washed with a veneer of tears.

Trying to see past the assumptions and misguesses, past the veneer others themselves generate defensively, trying to see the real Jack.

It contained a double bed without a headboard, polyurethane curtains of white and silver thread, and a long dresser of fake oak veneer under a mirror stuck to the wall with clear plastic fasteners.