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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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 Kansas City, Mo., another one-armed paperhanger caught another case of hives.

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He had come to office just 33 days after Adolf Hitler, the Austrian paperhanger, had taken over Germany.

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I built an addition to my dwelling; and when it was completed I employed a paperhanger from London named Taylor, to beautify the old rooms.

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.