paperhanger

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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.

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Benjamin Twaddle, a 66-year-old paperhanger from Lynn, was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston four years ago, with advanced cancer of the prostate which had spread widely through his body.

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A young girl said her paperhanger husband had a hard time finding a job because of paper-mill shutdowns.

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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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I wanted to show them our red plush furniture, and the trumpet-blowing cherubs the German paperhanger had put on our parlour ceiling.

From My Antonia by Cather, Willa Sibert