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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A paper-mill.

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Examples

  • Glass furnaces were established in Ghent, Liége and Hainault, paper-works in Huy, the manufacture of iron cauldrons began in Liége, and soap factories and distilleries were set up in other places.

    Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Emile Cammaerts 1915

  • That's why I've got capitalists to start paper-works, engineering works, a foundry, and a sash-door-and - blind factory -- just the beginning.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • That's why I've got capitalists to start paper-works, engineering works, a foundry, and a sash-door-and - blind factory -- just the beginning.

    The World for Sale, Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897

  • That's why I've got capitalists to start paper-works, engineering works, a foundry, and a sash-door-and-blind factory -- just the beginning.

    The World for Sale, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Then there are houses where the people employed in the paper-works lodge, a recently-acquired home for the better class of men, which was once a mansion of the De Clifford family, and afterwards a hospital, and a store where every kind of oddment is sold by Dutch auction.

    Regeneration Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Peter the Great, for example, two paper-works were established by an

    Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

  • Her houses are of brick and stone, neat and well situated, but in good masonry not to be compared to those of Henry VIII's building; they are rather curious to the eye, like paper-works, than substantial for continuance.

    For Whom Shakespeare Wrote Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Her houses are of brick and stone, neat and well situated, but in good masonry not to be compared to those of Henry VIII's building; they are rather curious to the eye, like paper-works, than substantial for continuance.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Her houses are of brick and stone, neat and well situated, but in good masonry not to be compared to those of Henry VIII's building; they are rather curious to the eye, like paper-works, than substantial for continuance.

    Complete Essays Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Google, as usual is up to make things easier by letting users better organize all the paper-works by putting them online.

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

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