His second worst were already in the mending basket, so nothing remained for me but to clothe him in his best suit and wonder all day in which part of them I should find the largest hole when I came home.
Ready Mode of Mending Cracks in Stoves, Pipes and Iron Ovens.
Some carpenters were at work here mending a scow on the green and sloping bank.
How like a Flute thou speak'st: o'th' mending hand man?
Yet religion has as much to do with the mending of shoes as with the budget and the army estimates.
Men act thus, not because they are indifferent to religion, but because they do not see what religion has to do with the mendingof their shoes.
Mending represents but a small part of the detail and system necessary to good housekeeping.
Miss Clyde took a careful survey of a shelf where sheets were piled, and from it she filled her mending basket.
Have you told any one about notmending the leak, Ned?
Martine, after a moment, again seated on the ground, and occupied in mending the chair, "what a misfortune for a good man like that to lose his soul wilfully.
Pray do sir," said I eagerly, "you will find Jeremy Jarvis the most wonderful tinker in the world and one who writes poetry besides mending kettles and shoeing horses.
I might as well ask you why you sitmending a kettle and singing?
Shall we take the boy back to thy father's lodgings, Edgar, and persuade Mistress Judith to bestow some of her fair mendingupon his garments?
To have an expert needlewoman in the house is a great boon to the housewife, and when she has three employees who can sew in her home, she ought to insist upon a great deal of sewing and mending being done by each one of them.
All the washing, ironing, and mending of the family were done by the two employees, and they also took care of the children when necessary.
There is always some mending to do in all families and a woman who is clever with her needle might make herself very useful to her employer.
The employee did all the washing, ironing and mending each week, and although she came to her work only at noon, she accomplished as much work during her eight hours as if she began earlier in the day.
Undisturbed by these complicated steams of abomination, a middle-aged woman, with a face which had defied a thousand storms, sat mending a net at the door of one of the cottages.
During the day the men passed their time in sleep, in mending their clothes, or in talking quietly together.
It's no use thinking of mending the canoes, I suppose," James asked.
Perhaps some of my readers may have practised the same method of mending a punctured football.
Allusion to this mode of mending the skin bottles is made in Josh.
The consequence was that, whenever there was a holiday and the school was shut, Heatherley employed the time in mending the skeleton; Butler's picture represents him so engaged in a corner of the studio.
We thought that when Jesus called them from mending their nets, that occupation was for ever abandoned.
VIII One evening in February, Theresa and Philippina chanced to be sitting by the lamp mending the week’s wash.
Suddenly she stopped as if rooted to the sill: she caught sight of Philippina, who was then sitting by the window mending a pair of socks.
We could only attribute it to some defect in the mending of the boot at York, but then came the mystery why the other ankle had not been similarly affected.
My father was mending rapidly, and Sarah was well enough to insist upon busying herself about many little matters to add to our comfort.
She can still see the tall spare figure of Mrs. Clemm in her rocking-chair doing her bit of mending and casting anxious glances at the son of her love, about whom so much has been written in later days.
She did the mending and the ironing; Mr. Reed insisted they should have a washerwoman.
The muslins only need mending and doing up to look as well as ever; you ought not to put them away torn and soiled, my child.
She would pass anything, even the unexpected appearance of a road-mending engine turning a corner did not perceptibly disturb her.
It was these thoughts which led him on his long rides; it was one of them which impelled him, one morning, as he was passing a heap of broken stone, piled for the mending of the ways by the roadside, to touch Faustine with heel and whip.
