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.

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

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

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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