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He is the director of the work, Ñor Juan, architect, mason, carpenter, whitewasher, locksmith, painter, stone cutter, and, on occasion, sculptor.

From Friars and Filipinos An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, 'Noli Me Tangere.' by Rizal, José

She had been up in the new flat with the whitewasher.

From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson

At the suggestion of his friend Mr. Johnson, he bought a whitewash brush, a peck of lime, a couple of pails, and a hand-cart, and began work as a whitewasher.

From The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays by Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell)

It sought to rebuild the ruins of any bricklayer, and to give any faded whitewasher a new white coat.

From A Short History of England by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

And he painted like a whitewasher, mixing his colours as a hodman mixes his mortar, and managing to make the clearest and brightest of them quite muddy.

From His Masterpiece by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred