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Upon these hotels workmen were plastering furiously last week, tacking shingles like a swarm of mad woodpeckers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hospital attendants in San Antonio, Tex., smiled pityingly at an elderly gentleman whose two broken ribs and fractured collarbone they were plastering last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

I’m going to hold my own against Dud Fielding and all his kind, no matter how they push; and I told Father Rector that yesterday when they were plastering up Dud’s eye and nose.”

From Killykinick by Waggaman, Mary T. (Mary Theresa)

At Dubetchnya they were plastering the inside of the station, and building a wooden upper storey to the pumping shed.

From The Chorus Girl and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance

On the island, other beavers were plastering the spaces between the trees with mud and leaves.

From Story Hour Readers — Book Three by Coe, Ida