单词 | paperhanger |
例句 | Since ancient times, proud craftspeople have signed their work, from masons who chiseled cryptic runes into stone to paperhangers who penciled details on bare plaster. Perspective | Beer bottles and cans hidden behind the drywall? I’ll drink to that. 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z He was a painter and paperhanger by trade. Wyoming woman turns 105, looks back on homestead days 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z For two weeks carpenters, plumbers, and whitewashers, followed by paperhangers and upholsterers, had been at work in the former palace of the Stadholder. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z A loose end of rope swinging from the paperhanger’s ladder caught her eye. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z So she drove the painters and paperhangers and upholsterers almost wild, and had the happiness of seeing the beautiful room all settled and in order two days before Mrs. Breen was expected. The Girl Scouts Rally Rosanna Wins 2011-11-29T03:00:16.213Z Then the smiling paperhanger worked with astonishing rapidity and said that he didn't object in the least to having four pairs of bright eyes watch from the doorway every strip go into place. Dandelion Cottage 2011-10-29T02:00:16.960Z “Sometimes I feel like the one-armed paperhanger”, Chandler said. The Fifth Down: Remembering Don Chandler, Former Giant and Packer 2011-08-14T14:00:31Z Her own house was having some repairs, so she had made a convenience of our hospitality to escape the discomforts of paperhangers and painters. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z The whitewashers and paperhangers had just finished, and were gathering up their tools, and a couple of charwomen were scouring the floors. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z By May, Reidt was back on Long Island and working as a paperhanger. | Doomsday, East Patchogue, 1925 2011-05-20T01:38:47Z 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. Dandelion Cottage 2011-10-29T02:00:16.960Z You have to do so many kinds of work in examples, that it's hard to remember whether you're a farmer or a paperhanger. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z Should she prefer Eleanor H. Porter, we think there would be no danger in telling the paperhangers to do the bedroom in pink. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z Then last summer's high-profile signing, David James, started like a one-armed paperhanger in goal. Bristol City 2-0 Derby County 2010-12-11T19:45:00Z He was a paperhanger among other things, and a great pair of shears had been lying on the table. Manslaughter That end of the Estate had by this time a full team of tenants, whereas I had two sets of painters and paperhangers to keep up to the mark in Witching Hill Road. Witching Hill Now just imagine, that as a paperhanger I should have taken it into my head to become a Wagner singer! The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature So the paperhanger was visited and Dolly chose a lovely paper of striped pattern, but all white; to be crowned with a border design of hanging vines and leaves in shades of green. Two Little Women Just now, he was, as he himself put it, "as busy as a one-armed paperhanger with the hives." Bert Wilson on the Gridiron Buying rolls of paper at the paperhanger's, she set about papering every closet in the house. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 He was beautifully curved and his black preacher uniform looked as if it had been put on him by a paperhanger. At Good Old Siwash The next morning we went to a paperhanger’s shop and asked to see the very newest and most artistic designs in stock. The Heart of Una Sackville The carpet had faded, and when I was renewing it I took the opportunity to have in the painters and paperhangers. Flaming June I'll apprentice myself to a paperhanger, and learn to paper my rooms with my worthless railway shares. Banzai! by Parabellum "By the way, Dimple, I forgot to tell you that possibly the paperhanger might be here; he was to come one day this week to paper the upper hall." A Sweet Little Maid The reminiscences of the plumber provoked the paperhanger to further recollections, more particularly the stunning effects of the French shell-fire. Leaves from a Field Note-Book To leave it for the painter and paperhanger to settle would be a fatal error. The Complete Home 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. 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 After the workmen were gone away Vandover began the labour of arrangement, aided by one of the paperhangers he had retained for that purpose. Vandover and the Brute The chaps who think they're the architects are only a sort of paperhangers, who hang brick and terra-cotta on our work and clap a pinnacle or two on top—but never mind that. Widdershins A paperhanger studied the wall-paper with a professional eye while he appropriated his cards. Leaves from a Field Note-Book If painters, paperhangers, and upholsterers could make happiness as well as splendour, I should be interested about their proceedings in Laura's future home. The Woman in White I wanted to show them our red plush furniture, and the trumpet-blowing cherubs the German paperhanger had put on our parlour ceiling. My Antonia In the bedroom was stored the furniture that had been moved out of the sitting-room, while the sitting-room itself was given over to the paperhangers and carpenters. Vandover and the Brute Didn't I send a paperhanger to you with patterns? The Possessed (The Devils) All of which the paperhanger listened to in thoughtful silence and then told a tale. Leaves from a Field Note-Book And it was the same at the little paperhanger's shop where Theophilus had ordered some pieces of Morris wall-paper for his room. The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.] The sun had receded, leaving a sudden sullen gray, the little square room, littered with an upheaval of excelsior, sheet-shrouded furniture, and the paperhanger's paraphernalia and inimitable smells, darkening and seeming to chill. Gaslight Sonatas The paperhangers and painters have left; the carpets will be laid and the furniture arranged to-day. More Pages from a Journal In the ballroom set, where the flats or walls were all in place, an unexcited paperhanger was busy with the paraphernalia of his craft, somehow looking out of his element in this reign of pandemonium. The Film Mystery 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. Observations By Mr. Dooley "Law! what a taste, to be sure!" had exclaimed the paperhanger's wife as they opened the parcel. The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.] Wait till spring sunshine and the paperhangers invade the place.' Thyrza Whitewashers and paperhangers had done their work; a new carpet was laid down; but pictures had still to be restored to their places, and the furniture stood all together in the middle of the room. The Paying Guest He is invariably a gentleman by daylight, breakfasting in a dress suit, and posing as a paperhanger, while after dark he plies his nefarious occupation of burglary. Sixes and Sevens Painters and paperhangers had worked in that room as in others, but no reports of strange sounds, or groans, or voices, had come from there. Thankful's Inheritance Though strictly a paperhanger by trade, he could be plasterer too when he liked. Man and Wife As soon as painters, plasterers, and paperhangers were out of the way, Grail and Thyrza went to the house to decide what furniture it would be necessary to buy. Thyrza As soon as the puppies were bestowed on the porch, in the sunshine, for their morning nap, he telephoned to the local paperhanger. Where the Blue Begins |
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