26 collocations for papers

" "But why do you not paper the room," asked Etta, with a shiver, "instead of this gloomy panelling?

Printing and paper money in the north 4 Political history of the Five Dynasties (B) Period of Moderate Absolutism (1) The Northern Sung dynasty 1 Southward expansion 2 Administration and army.

"I do believe you'll paper the pigsty next, mother," said Mercy one day: "there's nothing left you can paper except that."

" "Then," she said, "I am surprised that you came here to paper our library, and I think you had better go back to your shop and send a competent man.

It was objected to, for the same reason as the question about the author's being in the gallery, because the answer might tend to accuse himself; and he being withdrawn, a debate of the same nature ensued, and the question being put whether he should be asked, if he be the person that printed the daily paper shown to him, which paper the house the day before resolved to contain a malicious and scandalous libel, etc.

While he was papering the front hall the entire Carey family lived on the stairs between meals, fearful lest they should lose any incident, any anecdote, any story, any reminiscence that might fall from his lips.

ANNOBON, a Spanish isle in the Gulf of Guinea. ANNONAY (14), a town in Ardèche, France; paper the chief manufacture.

One of his brothers, whose eyes are white instead of red, and who lives in the bushes instead of high woods, is called 'The Politician' from his fondness for newspapersnot that he can read them, of course, but he likes to paper his nest with clippings from them, which is his way of making a scrap-book.

I've heerd o' paintin' the town,I guess you're paperin' it, ain't you?" Peter was too busy and too eager for paste to reply, the facts of the case being that while Mr. Popham held the family spellbound by his conversation, he himself was papering the outside of the house with scraps of assorted paper as high up as his short arms could reach.

I hope, since it's come this far, it will come farther, so the landlord will have to paper the parlor.

Alison and I spent the evening hanging the patterns up one after the other on one wall of the dining-room, and tried to paper the rest of the walls in the mind's eye, but at eleven o'clock we knocked off for the night and went to bed with headaches.

I have felt perfectly satisfied when I've papered over my dining-room with paper a shillin' a roll, and it did look well.

She had a mania for papering and repapering and papering again every shelf, every box, every corner she could get hold of.

My sister is papering up the bookcareful soul!

But the name of Ptolemaeus is mentioned very near the beginning of the Preface; so that Irenaeus would be committing to paper the statement of his acquaintance with Ptolemaeus as early as 182 A.D.

"Can we get there in time to paper the town and hire a hall to show in, Mister?"

Many of our prose-writers constantly put language upon paper the use of which in ordinary life would be received by a court as evidence of insanity.

I particularly recollected having volunteered a translation or imitation of a pretty song in Ruy Blas; and as the fit was upon me, I produced my pocketbook, to commit to paper a version of it which I had mentally devised.

That hope had been taken from him; the result was at hand; and his private correspondence, if he intrusted to paper his views of the situation, will probably show that from that moment he gave up all anticipation of success, and prepared to do his simple duty as a soldier, leaving the issue of affairs to Providence.

I've been given shares in unproven El Doradoes times out of number, and could paper the wall of, say, a good-sized bathroom with the stock certificatesmay do it some day if I ever settle down.

lad of eighteen and master of only one trade instead of a dozen, like his father, had been deputed to paper Mother Carey's bedroom while she moved for a few days into the newly fitted guest room, which was almost too beautiful to sleep in, with its white satiny walls, its yellow and green garlands hanging from the ceiling, its yellow floor, and its old white chamber set repainted by the faithful and clever Popham.

"If we could only paper New Zion like this!" exclaimed Theophil, a curious new feeling of joy and pain shooting through him to hear a woman thus expressing herself as an independent brain.

When firmly trussed, singe them all over; put them down to a bright clear fire, paper the breasts with a sheet of buttered paper, and keep the fowls well basted.

" "I have had a talk with the lawyers who hold the executions against the show, I have suggested four nights and two matinees at half-price, papering four counties liberally.

I write, and why? because the review of God's mercies proves a stimulus; and often, while committing to paper the Lord's dealings with me, His love flames brighter on my heart.

26 collocations for  papers