110 Metaphors for papering

I must confess I have lighted my Pipe with my own Works for this Twelve-month past: My Landlady often sends up her little Daughter to desire some of my old Spectators, and has frequently told me, that the Paper they are printed on is the best in the World to wrap Spice in.

"A penny paper is the most popular," he said, regarding her with merry, twinkling eyes.

"The Glanville papers are not alone his authorities."

Accordingly he wrote, in lieu of the regular possessive, "My paper is Ulysses his bow.

All that brown paper,why, it's a pair of chickens, all ready to roast.

This paper was a slender strip, and could not be seen by the audience.

The ink was "warter", the pens had not enough "pint", and the paper was "trash"; but on being assured it was the good stuff he had purchased especially for himself, he buckled to the fray, producing in three hours a half-sheet epistle, which in grammar, composition, and spelling quite eclipsed the entries in his diary.

More and more has that paper become the organ of a sort of Oxford Imperialism, three or four years behind the times and very ripe and "expert."

The paper was fine-tinted note, and Bart seemed to catch a faint odor of violets as he opened it; a circumstance which reminded him that a few days before he had found on the grave of his brother, a faded bouquet of flowers.

His paper was formerly L'Homme LibreThe Free Manbut on being suppressed this fall by the censor its octogenarian editor

But in discount and deposit the depositor brings no money, and the credit paper that he gives is his own promise to pay whereby he becomes the bank's debtor.

Then the obvious explanation had struck one of the boys, that the papers that came out to Hickory Hill on Sunday were an early edition.

"This paper," said Faria, "is my treasure; and if I have not been allowed to possess it, you will.

"I CALL IT SIMPLY SCANDALOUS THAT THE PAPERS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO PUBLISH THE DATES WHEN THE MOON IS FULL.

The official paper of the Swedish government is Post och Inriches Tidning, which was founded as far back as 1645, and is one of the oldest periodicals in the world.

He has often spoken of it at Blanzy, but the paper is another matter.

Cotton-paper was an Eastern invention, probably introduced in the ninth century, although not generally used in Europe till about the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

That paper was the address of Napoleon to the army, on landing from Elba.

The papers on Arboriculture, Architecture, Arctic Discovery, Armor, Army, Asia, Atlantic Ocean, Australia, Balance of Power, Bank, and Barometer, are excellent examples of compact and connected statement of facts and principles.

The paper was a half sheet torn from an exercise-book, and its contents were written in faint lead pencil.

Looking over his shoulder, Magdalen saw that the paper was the secret trust.

"The papers burnt are all the drawings, all the books filed, Dana's lectures, Chester's pamphlet, your sketchbook (if the original was there), your tag of type, etc., etc.

He took some papers from his pocket, and looked at them carefully; but the papers were not charts nor mapslike as not they were things no way connected with the mine at all.

The conclusion, however, was at last borne in upon him that the position he had taken up was untenable, and that paper is the result.

Accordingly he wrote, in lieu of the regular possessive, "My paper is Ulysses his bow.

110 Metaphors for  papering