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All the "members" attending the meeting house are very decorous, respectable, middle-class people substantial well-pursed folk, who can afford to be independent, and take life easily men and women who dislike shoddy and cant as much as they condemn spangles and lackered gentility. The aggregate of the people connected with the place are calm, steady-going beings.

Atticus - Our Churches and Chapels : Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations : Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston

To dust, as it is now practised, truly means to distribute dust more equally over a room. As to floors, the only really clean floor I know is the Berlin lackered floor, which is wet rubbed and dry rubbed every morning to remove the dust. The French parquet is always more or less dusty, although infinitely superior in point of cleanliness and healthiness to our absorbent floor.

Florence Nightingale - Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not

Besides tea, the exports from China are porcelain, silk, nankeens, &c.; the imports are the woollen goods, and tin and copper of England; cotton, tin, pepper, &c. from the British settlements in India; edible birds' nests, furs, &c. The trade of Japan is principally with China: the exports are copper, lackered ware, &c.; the imports are raw silk, sugar, turpentine, drugs, &c.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 : Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and : Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth : Century, By William Stevenson

He found himself looking at the young bucks at the bath at the blond, tight-waisted Germans at the capering Frenchmen, with their lackered mustaches and trim varnished boots at the English dandies, Pen among them, with their calm domineering air, and insolent languor: and envied each one of these some excellence or quality of youth, or good looks which he possessed, and of which Warrington felt the need.

William Makepeace Thackeray - The History of Pendennis, Volume 2: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy

She was too childish and simple for her imagination to rove into questions about her unknown father; for a long while it did not even occur to her that she must have had a father; and the first time that the idea of her mother having had a husband presented itself to her, was when Silas showed her the wedding-ring which had been taken from the wasted finger, and had been carefully preserved by him in a little lackered box shaped like a shoe.

George Eliot - Silas Marner