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  • On the other hand, he notes that too much paint, in the form of painted-shut windows, lends a home the feel of a fixer-upper.

    How to can keep your house from looking old, neglected Elizabeth Razzi 2010

  • She forced open the painted-shut hall doors and turned one of the kitchens into a bedroom.

    Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter Barbara Robinette Moss 2001

  • She forced open the painted-shut hall doors and turned one of the kitchens into a bedroom.

    Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter Barbara Robinette Moss 2001

  • Someone had managed to open a couple of the dusty painted-shut window sections in the rehearsal space.

    War for the Oaks Bull, Emma, 1954- 1987

  • Someone had managed to open a couple of the dusty painted-shut window sections in the rehearsal space.

    War for the Oaks Emma Bull 1987

  • Someone had managed to open a couple of the dusty painted-shut window sections in the rehearsal space.

    War for the Oaks Emma Bull 1987

  • Someone had managed to open a couple of the dusty painted-shut window sections in the rehearsal space.

    War for the Oaks Emma Bull 1987

  • Her mind went back to the frigid days she’d spent hunting squirrels, packing boxes until her hands looked like gnarled claws, coughing till her throat bled from the fumes she’d been breathing all day in airless factories with painted-shut windows.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • Her mind went back to the frigid days she’d spent hunting squirrels, packing boxes until her hands looked like gnarled claws, coughing till her throat bled from the fumes she’d been breathing all day in airless factories with painted-shut windows.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • Her mind went back to the frigid days she’d spent hunting squirrels, packing boxes until her hands looked like gnarled claws, coughing till her throat bled from the fumes she’d been breathing all day in airless factories with painted-shut windows.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

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