paste

With pictures pasted on the wall

One winter’s night, as we sat together by the fire, I ventured to suggest to him that, as he had finished pasting extracts into his common-place book, he might employ the next two hours in making our room a little more habitable.

Across the middle of it a single sentence had been formed by the expedient of pasting printed words upon it.

Someone, then, cut out the message with a pair of short-bladed scissors, pasted it with paste—”