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.

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

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Up to th' time whin th' top blew off th' stock market, he bought his art out iv th' front window iv a news an' station'ry shop or had it put in be th' paperhanger.

From Observations By Mr. Dooley by Dunne, Finley Peter