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  • In Buffalo I had briefly worked on a house-painting crew, and although I had never actually tasted the various pastes I had smeared into walls, this hummus reminded me of grout.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • A house-painting job at Foster†™ s gets out of hand when Bloo decides to channel his inner muse!

    DC Comics for May 2008 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • Just in time for the spring house-painting season, paint prices are heading higher, another example of rising commodity prices rippling through to consumers' pocketbooks

    Pricing Brightens for Paint Makers James R. Hagerty 2011

  • Most of all, he wishes he had seen the Poles, and spends his spare time between house-painting jobs reading all about polar explorations.

    Ben Stiller and Noah Baumbach Reteaming for Mr. Popper’s Penguins? | /Film 2010

  • In Buffalo I had briefly worked on a house-painting crew, and although I had never actually tasted the various pastes I had smeared into walls, this hummus reminded me of grout.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Songwriters should make money by selling their songwriting services, the same way that barbers make money by selling their haircutting services and house painters make money by selling their house-painting services.

    Matthew Yglesias » Intellectual Property is About Consumers 2010

  • James Hyde picked up a heavy house-painting roller, coated it with the heavy acrylic used by sign painters, and reworked photographic prints of details of two works by the early American abstractionist Stuart Davis.

    ARTINFO: In New York: Gallery Openings This Weekend 2010

  • Roger Nascimento, owner of a small house-painting business who has dropped in to grab a quick breakfast, may close off the second floor of his home and move his family downstairs this winter to save on heating costs.

    Economic angst tops issues in Mass. town 2008

  • The house-painting and knife-peddling advertisers could show their ads only to male students at colleges in regions where they wanted to increase their workforce.

    The Facebook Effect David Kirkpatrick 2010

  • Most people seem absorbed in their individual projects, house-painting, baby-nursing, cookery or bicycle repair.

    Christopher Lydon: Walking the Slum Side of Bangalore (AUDIO) 2010

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