paperhanger

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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 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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It was finished by the following night, for no paperhanger could have had the heart to linger over his work with so many anxious eyes following every movement.

From Dandelion Cottage by Rankin, Carroll Watson