But political and social equality sprang from the very conditions of life in the New World; and despite the veneering of royalty, Maryland came soon to be a government of the people.
"England in America, 1580-1652"
Lyon Gardiner Tyler
Something had gone of her native bloom, something had been scratched and chipped from the first fair surface, and this had been repaired by varnish and veneering.
"The Duke's Children"
Anthony Trollope
His cool and careless words, which her knowledge of him taught her were the veneering for an inexorable resolution, gave her a shock of disappointment.
"A Manifest Destiny"
Julia Magruder