paperhanger

Example Sentences

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I suggested that we go over in the corner and ask God to send us a paperhanger and while we were praying a man came into the mission.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is as busy as the classic one-armed paperhanger.

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His family emigrated to the U.S. when he was nine and settled at Bayonne, N.J., where his father became a paperhanger, a trade that Burns learned as a schoolboy.

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In lieu of payment for the paperhanging job, Hance worked out a reconciliation between the paperhanger and his estranged wife.

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He was beautifully curved and his black preacher uniform looked as if it had been put on him by a paperhanger.

From At Good Old Siwash by Fitch, George