That is so; for that same tinker could reform the whole Roman Empire while he patched a kettle, and play both mender of dishes and mender of diets at the same time.
Reuter's hint about its extreme poverty might be too well-founded, and I feared to embarrass the lace-mender by entering her lodgings unawares!
Your lace-mender is too good for you, but not good enough for me; neither physically nor morally does she come up to my ideal of a woman.
Then he set up in business as a mender of old shoes and became notorious, not because of his skill as a cobbler, but on account of his quick wit and clever ideas.
The itinerant mender of slippers was hard at work with three young lads, and I never saw any one of the party idle.
The menderof nets touched him softly upon the hand.
The mender of nets, too, bent forward from his settle until his breath mingled with the breath of the younger man.
The mender of nets covered his eyes with his hand.
A clever mender can do such work so that it need not be sent to a regular library binder.
Repairs which are too difficult for the ordinary library mender to make can easily be done in the library bindery at slight cost.
A road-mender slept in the bottom of the ditch that bounds the ramparts.
Lacarelle, had said to him: “This young woman has cured a road-mender and a bailiff.
But Monsieur Mender is not a Russian at all, and no more a prince than he is a Russian.
If you are fearful of the chances and of the possible consequences, Dalny," replied Mender coldly, "you may withdraw.
As he pronounced these significant words Mender shrugged his shoulders.
Through transoms on opposite sides of the cabin Mender and Dalny showed their evil faces, as each trained on the young naval officer an ugly-looking naval revolver.
It would be desirable," Mender proceeded, "to prevent the young officers from going back aboard their ship.
Mender puffed for a few moments at a Russian cigarette, before he again spoke.
That was perhaps to be expected," answered Mender reflectively.
It was an indiscretion, true," nodded the white-haired Mender thoughtfully.
In the case that this extra money was not forthcoming, declared the leader of the bravos, Mender and his friends might find Naples much too dangerous a city for them.
Down came the barrier, and Dalny, shaking and white, was brought out to keep Mender company.
And, lastly, it's not fair that my Polly should spend her prime in acting the part of cook and mender of old clothes to a set of rough miners.
To this speech Polly Samson replied, promptly, that nothing pleased her more than to be a cook and mender of old clothes to rough miners, and that she was willing to continue in that capacity as long as her father chose.
The glass mender had a pretty daughter called Joan, and she had a tame blackbird which she kept in a wicker cage.
And as the glass mender came into the room with his basket and his tools, she said: "At last you've come!
Rainbow from that moment was cured, and the glassmender went to the King and claimed his reward.
Once in his shop the clock-mender poured the steaming soup into a bowl, broke bread in it, and began his evening meal.
He went inside, and the ancient clock-mender looked up from his work, for he was always working.
He had a glimpse of the ancient clock-mender himself, however, huddled over a table upon which sputtered a candle.
He had been promised immunity; that was all he cared about, unless it was the bag of silver and gold this old clock-mender had given him a few hours gone.
But the clock-mender bent over his work; all he was conscious of was the eternal tick-tock!
And in this condition of mind Grumbach found him; Grumbach, accompanied by the old clock-mender from across the way, and a Gipsy Carmichael had never seen before.
Aware of a shadow between him and the fading daylight, the clock-mender looked up from his work.
The bony hands of the clock-mender shot out and clutched the other's coat in a grip which shook, so intense was it.
Annette acknowledged the introduction with rather a haughty bend of her head--the little lace-mender had her pride.
If I had been a duchess instead of a poor little lace-mender he could not have treated me with greater courtesy.
Perhaps he is not willing to take the poor little lace-mender for his daughter.
There was an old road-mender busy by the bridge end, shovelling together the road scrapings in small heaps.
Only a lame road-mender was in sight, and he was too far away to have been the speaker.
While thus occupied I was startled by a tap at the window, followed by a head which I recognised as that of the road-mender I had lately seen.
I had less trouble to get the opinion of an old road-mender whom I fell in with one day.
Already the mender of roads had penetrated into the midst of a group of fifty particular friends, and was smiting himself in the breast with his blue cap.
Well, here I am, a mender of broken jars, An unfortunate victim of ever-changing plans.
Did I not hear the cry of the mender of cracked jars?
Hither and yon, and on all sides, From the east gate to the west, From the south gate to the north, And all over within the walls Have I been, but no one has called For the mender of cracked jars.
There were only a few brave gossips, who said, "You may be certain that the mender on the Gagny road did not take all that trouble for nothing; he was sure that the devil had come.
He was subjected to certain police supervision, and, as he could find work nowhere, the administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the cross-road from Gagny to Lagny.
Sieur Boulatruelle was that road-mender of Montfermeil whom the reader has already seen in the gloomy parts of this book.
They made an effort, and got the old road-mender to drinking.
Road-mender and thief as he was, he cherished one dream; he believed in the treasures buried in the forest of Montfermeil.
His mother had found a suitable girl, a lace-mender like herself, whom she was urging him to marry.
The lace-mender was very grave, and looked rather sad as she bent her face over her tambour-frame.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mender" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cobbler; doctor; fixer; mechanic; serviceman; tinker
