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Mrs. Bill LaRose, after a losing battle against bedbugs, prepared to fumigate, repaint and repaper her sailors' rooming house.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Louisa may want to repaper the farmhouse some time," he added to himself.

From Tutt and Mr. Tutt by Train, Arthur Cheney

“Another thing, to keep her interest in me, if you should decide to repaper my room and want to surprise me, I would be perfectly satisfied with Lucy’s taste.”

From The Girl Scouts Rally Rosanna Wins by Galt, Katherine Keene

The absence of tax, and the improvement of the manufacture by machinery, have enabled every man to repaper his filthy and noxious room for almost as little as its whitewashing or colouring will cost him.

From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Knight, Charles

At last he allowed her to repaper the room.

From The Case of Richard Meynell by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.