... Always, everywhere, man is man,nor has he altered greatly beneath his veneer since he scurried into ahole between two rocks to escape the tyrannosaurus six million yearsago...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Jungle Tales of Tarzan」
... His civilization was at best but an outward veneer which hegladly peeled off with his uncomfortable European clothes whenever anyreasonable pretext presented itself...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar」
...Never had his civilization been more thana veneer put on for the sake of her he loved because he thought itmade her happier to see him thus...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Untamed」
...Oh! how she loved him, when she felt in him the passionate lover, the wild, untamed creature that he was at heart, on whom the frigid courtliness of manner sat but as a thin veneer...
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 「The Elusive Pimpernel」
...Collot made no secret of his hatred for Chauvelin, and the latter disguised it but thinly under the veneer of contemptuous indifference...
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 「The Elusive Pimpernel」
...His experiencehas put over that a veneer ofweary politeness...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905」
...They save us much long and often irksome study; they impart a veneer of general knowledge...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...Under the veneer of what is called civilization liethe racial and elemental passions, just as Mother Earth lies beneaththe asphalted streets of the city...
Charles Bradford 「The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout」
...Theso-called conversion of Britain meant the conversion of the rulers only;the mass of the people continued to follow their ancient customs andbeliefs with a veneer of Christian rites...
Margaret Alice Murray 「The Witch-cult in Western Europe」
...They testify that the older forms of politeness were an integral element of the feudal system and were too often a thin veneer of manner by no means expressive of heart interest...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...The veneer was produced by slicingdown two ancient columns discovered near the Temple of RomulusMaxentius in the Forum, converted into the Church of SS...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...Although he did not recognize me, I sawthrough the veneer of added years with ease...
Victor Rousseau 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930」
...The false veneer of civilisation is peeling off at a great rate...
Jeanie “Mrs. Aeneas” Gunn 「We of the Never-Never」
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