Mending
['mendɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mend
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To dream of mending soiled garments, denotes that you will undertake to right a wrong at an inopportune moment; but if the garment be clean, you will be successful in adding to your fortune. For a young woman to dream of mending, foretells that she will be a systematic help to her husband.
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Examples
- Mrs Clennam and Jeremiah had exchanged a look; and had then looked, and looked still, at Affery, who sat mending the stocking with great assiduity. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You've got no call to come an' talk about sticks o' these primises, as you woon't give a stick tow'rt mending. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Well, it's all arranged,' said Lowten, mending his pen. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Thank God he is mending. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She had done my mending and was a very short dumpy, happy-faced woman with white hair. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I agreed to do his washing and mending, but he forgets to give out his things and I forget to look them over, so he comes to a sad pass sometimes. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- One of them went to inquire for the captain, to learn what orders he wished to give for mending the well-tackle. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- And without divine help, said Adeimantus, they will go on for ever making and mending their laws and their lives in the hope of attaining perfection. Plato. The Republic.
- Even to the mending of your brothers' stockings and the making of sheets? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She would give a day to the mending of two holes in a stocking any time, and think her mission nobly fulfilled when she had accomplished it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I rowed up opposite the fisherman's island where there were boats drawn up and men were mending nets. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Don't your horses want feeding, or your reddlebags want mending, or don't you want to find buyers for your goods, that you stay idling here like this? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was in its usual state; except that one of the windows was wide open, and Affery sat on its old-fashioned window-seat, mending a stocking. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I should not have chosen that way of mending a fault, replied her mother, but I'm not sure that it won't do you more good than a bolder method. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She was soon back, and while noiselessly taking off her cloak, Laurie came in with a letter, saying that Mr. March was mending again. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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