The nail was just touched with brown varnish to match the skirting-board.

Acrid smoke from hundreds of tallow candles produced an almost impossible overlay of grime, not to speak of thick brown varnishes applied to the paint.

He saw a landing, varnished with the same brown varnish, a staircase leading downward.

He was followed by a skinny horse drawing a Lavender Cab, its bright paint peeling to reveal old brown varnish and its upholstery cracked and bursting.

Once outside, I walked across the pebbly hard ground, in the only area free of nasty glassy lava shards, kicking my boots lightly against the brown and orange varnish.

Ramkins looked down their noses at her from their frames, through the brown varnish of the centuries.

There are traces of brown varnish here.

His work is characterized by beautiful modelling, good wood and very dark brown varnish; the tone is strong and rich.

The unmarked door beside her was finished with peeling brown varnish and set into the featureless back wall of a four-storey building.

By Friday the master suite was ready for its new raiment; the walls stripped of their dusty paper and dull hangings, the woodwork of its old-fashioned, dark brown varnish.