"Papering" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... languishing condition, and the ladies have been talking all summer about doing something for it, getting up something—a concert or theatricals or a dance or something—and applying the proceeds to repainting and papering the visible church; it needs it dreadfully. But, of course, those things are not exactly religious, don't you know; and a fair is so much trouble; and such a bore, when you get the articles ready, even; and ...
— A Traveler from Altruria: Romance • W. D. Howells
... it from London two months ago, and it has been lying there ever since. And, Mrs. Magra, pray let the windows be opened, and the house well aired; that drawing-room would be all the better for new papering." ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever |
