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7 total sentences available.
The print of my finger thou hast defaced, and with arts-vanishing varnishment made thyself a changeling from the form I first cast thee in; Satan take her to thee, with black boiling pitch rough-cast over her counterfeit red and white; and whereas she was wont in ass's milk to bathe her to engrain her skin more gentle, pliant, delicate and supple, in bubbling scalding lead, and fatty flame-feeding brimstone see thou unceasingly bathe her.
Source: wiktionary
You cataracts and hurricanoes spout,' until ye have swept away all hypocrisies and impostures from the face of the earth; have demolished all counterfeit truths, and lying pretences; have drenched through and through the glossy varnishments and starched fineries of mock righteousness; have stripped the vizard from every sham, rent every flimsy cobweb, and purged every loathsome evil!
Source: wiktionary
In this work no cases are fictitious, for I wish not to palm upon the public anything like a novel: my aim is to exhibit character, as it really exists, without undue varnishment, and attempt to rouse the public mind from its lethargic state, and cause thought to be exercised upon what libertinism really is, how it so often ends in madness, but is always monomanical in its early development.
Source: wiktionary
The public speaker of today who gets nearest his audience is one who has something to say and who says it without ebullition, without varnishment, without rhapsodic figures of speech, without flower and embellishment.
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