That's old Tommy McGrew, the house-painter.

" The ladder was one the house-painters had been using, and was a pretty heavy one; but it was quickly set up against the largest and most valuable of the barns, and the one, too, which was nearest and most exposed to the burning building and its flying cinders.

The father of W had hitherto exercised the humble profession of house-painter at N, near Oxford.

F. . . . " 49 Favell; left Camb'rg because he was asham'd of his father, who was a house-painter there.

In the Key Lamb identifies W with Favell, who "left Cambridge because he was asham'd of his father, who was a house-painter there."

I tell you that has the true heart-stuff in itnow" They roared out a verse of "Auld Lang Syne," with execrable attempts at part-singing, little Dan Lefferts, a dissolute house-painter, contributing a tenor that was simply maniacal.

In a cottage at the village end of the bogeen lived a house-painter, Jim Montgomery, and his wife.

The eldest was the son of a country parson, a mild, decent lad, who eventually deserted and became a house-painter in the South Island of New Zealand.

It wanted repainting, and I think it very likely that it was a strain of that boyishness which I hope survives in us all, and one of whose quaint fancies is an envy of house-painters, so happy all day with paint-pot and brush and great smooth boards to dab and smooth, that decided him to do the job himself.

He is not,he is a house-painter.

An eminent house-painter in the city, a governor of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, got a receipt for the Painter's Cholic (cholica pictonum,) which contained all sorts of comfortable thingsthe chief ingredients being Cogniac brandy and spices.

The profit-sharing plan seems first to have been successfully tried in Paris, in 1842, by Leclaire, a house-painter.

This last-named poor creature bore sixteen children to a house-painter and plasterer, and then became a parish mid-wife, and only finally a baby-farmer.

CROME, JOHN, usually called Old Crome, a landscape-painter, born in Norwich, of poor parents; began as a house-painter and then a drawing-master; one of the founders of the Norwich Society of Artists; took his subjects from his native county, and treated them with fidelity to nature; his pictures have risen in value since his death (1768-1821).

"Ah, Monsieur," she said, "my aunt does not understand....Mymy uncle Pierre was a house-painter.