Patched

Examples

• Who can care a straw, really, how the old patched-up Constitution is tinkered at any more? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Here and there polished surfaces of ruby, emerald, and diamond patched the golden walls and ceiling. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He wore no mask; but his face, though curiously patched and painted, was easily known. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Holmes struck a match and held it to the back wheel, and I heard him chuckle as the light fell upon a patched Dunlop tire. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• She bent to look at the patched punt. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I know it all; that the young man's marrying her was a patched-up business, at the expence of your father and uncles. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Be sure the patch and the article to be patched are perfectly dry before applying the cement. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The other is the bicycle with the patched Dunlop. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Come, then, and, having exhausted the Palmer, let us see what the Dunlop with the patched cover has to offer us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The very next day after the grand quarrel about Sir Philip Nunnely a sort of reconciliation was patched up between uncle and niece. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The donkeys all stood still after the catastrophe and waited for their dismembered saddles to be patched up and put on by the noisy muleteers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We came to the cottage, where there was a feeble candle in the patched window. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The front is patched over with bills, setting forth the particulars of the furniture in staring capitals. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Then, taking his hat, and covering himself with an old patched great-coat, he went out, and locked the room-door behind him. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.

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