Lexicographical Neighbors of Paperings
Literary usage of Paperings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench, and by William Mawdesley Best, George James Philip Smith (1863)
"... roofs, ceilings, paperings, floors, stairs, doors and other parts thereof and
therein being have been greatly weakened, injured, wetted and damaged; ..."
2. &c by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1853)
"... some enlightened nation should take it into their head to try to de- cypher
and unravel the meaning of some chance-preserved paperings of our time, ..."
3. A Treatise on Pleading, and Parties to Actions, with Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening, John A. Dunlap, Edward Duncan Ingraham, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1872)
"... paperings, floors, stairs, doors, and other parts thereof, and by reason of
the premises, *the said messuage and premises of the said plaintiff became, ..."
4. The House and Home: A Practical Book by Lyman Abbott (1896)
"American taste, once inclining toward heavy color and intense gilding, has taken
a long stride forward in the matter of paperings. ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench, and by William Mawdesley Best, George James Philip Smith, Great Britain Court of Queen's Bench, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1863)
"... roofs, ceilings, paperings, floors, stairs, doors and other parts thereof and
therein being have been greatly weakened, injured, wetted and damaged; ..."
6. Transatlantic Wanderings, Or, A Last Look at the United States by John W. Oldmixon (1855)
"... like a man's own pictures and frames, or his gilt velvet paperings, or anything
that is Ms. I find myself leaving Boston without being able to notice ..."
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