"I've never seen any one quite so grand-top hat, latest style, long coat ditto, white buckskin waistcoat, twenty-thousand-dollar pearl in pale blue scarf, white spats, spotless varnish boots just from the varnishers, cream-colored gloves.
"The Deluge"
David Graham Phillips
He had noticed a new and better way that varnishers employed in Hamburg, and though he had not tried it with his own hands, he was sure he could imitate what he had seen.
"The Pedler of Dust Sticks"
Eliza Lee Follen
Our chairs are all at the varnishers.
"The Reckoning"
Robert W. Chambers