paperhanger

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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Though strictly a paperhanger by trade, he could be plasterer too when he liked.

From Man and Wife by Collins, Wilkie