Let me take a little oil, Mary said, just enough to put on the lacquer.

The black lacquer door was wide open, so they walked in.

I was seeing the way the lacquer caught the light.

The water seemed to turn black against the ebony lacquer.

There was some very good lacquer going at Christie's the other day.

The idea came of simply cutting the wood away to leave the lacquer.

I could tell, for her hair shone with lacquer, and she never used that at home.

Why should a base coat be the first step in any lacquer job?

There was no sign of a woman in a red lacquer mask.

Immediately, he bowed his head all the way to the lacquer.

It looked like a thin layer of dark brown lacquer.

It was very beautiful, lying there on the black lacquer of the table.

He was best known for his mastery of lacquer painting.

The lacquer is so thick that he can almost see his reflection.

But this is a man who once broke up with a woman for having a black lacquer entertainment center.

Or did you buy transfers, stick them on and lacquer over the top?

On the surface of the painting fine lacquer is applied.

The pieces and the game board are covered with a lacquer finish.

"And try to get some more blue lacquer at the Fair.

She began to fit her cosmetics into a lacquer box.

It can also be called japan lacquer and Brunswick black.

Nor was the surface smooth as it should have been in the case of lacquer.

What I should have done was stick with the lacquer shipment.

Here, five to six gallons of lacquer will be sprayed on.

To prevent this, you can apply a coat of lacquer.

His tongue felt as though it had been lacquered during the night.

He kept his hair well trimmed but never lacquered into place.

It was lacquered over with a thin coating of ice.

She swung out one long arm- her fingertips lacquered black.

The house walls were freshly painted white, the front door lacquered green.

The main structures are lacquered in black or clear varnish.

These are often stained or lacquered in imitation of bronze.

He stripped the floor himself, then lacquered the concrete with clear varnish.

Her nails had somehow been lacquered in the same opalescence.

Other methods use acid washing and lacquering to produce different effects.

The door panels were carved with the Flame, too, lacquered the color of fresh blood.

And by the time they emerged from the oven, they looked as if they'd been lacquered.

The sail is made of carbon-fiber materials that are lacquered in white.

In 1889 they were returned to Tiffany for lacquering - which cost $150.

The rain had left the boulevards lacquered, and the sky calm as death.

At the far end the doors of the elevator were lacquered a midnight-black.

Instead, it was a stout little black woman, her hair lacquered into an unnatural set of waves.

We lacquered ourselves to the evening news, pried open windows, called across to neighbors.

Li wondered why the physician bothered to lacquer her nails.

The planking on the floor was lacquered a deep lustrous blue.

Nicholas took Justine up to a metal door lacquered a deep sea green.

The chairs were blond wood, the occasional tables lacquered in black.

Some children, already lacquered with filth, use a mound of soil as a pillow.

You might even lacquer over the whole thing."

Her hair was lacquered up into a halo as hard as a helmet.