The gym floor, with its painted basketball lines and highly varnished surface, glimmered at him like an amber lagoon.

The varnished surface with its strange carvings felt oddly comforting.

He concentrated on the nearest part of the Seastag's railing, then reached out and tried to place his hand just above the varnished surface.

Kinsey could actually see them forming salty little pools on the bar's varnished surface.

It was rotten behind the varnished surface, and it gave under my fingers.

And there are fields of bananas, with the sunshine glancing from the varnished surface of their drooping vast leaves.

Dozens of black and white figurines were deployed across the varnished surface of the playing board.

The paint was removed with relative ease from the varnished surface.

He rapped on the varnished surface of the small table with a finger that seemed weighted with lead.

The young man set the glass on the tabletop, but it fell over to send ice cubes scuttling across the varnished surface.