re-papered

Updated: June 13, 2025

The meal had scarcely begun, when she looked around the room with wide-open eyes, and exclaimed: "Robert, if we should conclude to remain here, I think we will have this room re-papered with some light-colored paper. I like a light dining-room. This is entirely too dark."

Frank Richard Stockton - The Late Mrs. Null

At this meal she used to arrange also to have the room re-papered and the chimney swept and the rat-holes stopped up there were three of these, one was on the left-hand side of the fire grate, the other two were under the bed, and Mary Makebelieve had lain awake many a night listening to the gnawing of teeth on the skirting and the scamper of little feet here and there on the floor.

James Stephens - Mary, Mary