Xenomanes was patching up an old weather-beaten lantern with a hawk's jesses.
Their estate and condition of living is but only changed after a very strange manner; for I saw Alexander the Great there amending and patching on clouts upon old breeches and stockings, whereby he got but a very poor living.
The wild, free woods make no man halt or blind; Cities rob men of eyes and hands and feet, Patching one whole of many incomplete; The general preys upon the individual mind, And each alone is helpless as the wind.
And all our special reform work to-day is but patching the old, until with a knowledge of the true laws of social science we can begin to build the new aright.
Footnote 46: "No one but Burns ever succeeded in patching up old Scottish songs with any good effect," Scott wrote in his Journal (Vol.
He thought that with two or three exceptions the pieces in the book were genuine, and said: "I scarce know anything so easily discovered as the piecing and patching of an old ballad; the darns in a silk stocking are not more manifest.
Regular run of repairs (half soles or full soles, heels, patching of uppers, and other minor repairs).
Meanwhile, if the shoes needed patching on the uppers, this work was done by women operating sewing machines.
The joints of the patching were overlaid with cord or gimp, stitched down so as to conceal them entirely and give definition to the forms constituting the pattern.
The piecing and patching provide the maker with a suitable field for the display of artistic ability, while the quilting calls for particular skill in handling the needle.
Patching and Son erected the boundary wall for 560.
The building was thus delayed; but, on the 4th of November, an appearance was put in on behalf of the Building Committee, when the case, Patching v.
For partial retouches and for patching the stopping-out varnish is also used, but in a simpler and more expeditious way.
The graver may also be employed in patchingdeeply bitten passages.
Be able to make poultices, and do patching and darning.
The workmen patching the cathedral roof were heaving over the broken tiles on to the pavement without so much as a prefatory "Heads below!
And his highness's predilection for patching still appeals to the lieges of to-day.
Hundreds of French girls and even German prisoners are resoling and patching shoes with the aid of American machinery, and even the uppers of such as are otherwise hopeless are cut in spirals into laces.
There's been enough patchingin this country, and I won't have any more of it.
It was the first time the girl had seen them together, and she marveled at the queer patching that had been so strongly united here, yet so thoroughly separated them.
But take all the prisoners you can, my brave men, and tomorrow we will have a jolly time patching them.
You see," remarked Jimfred as they seated themselves again upon the bench, "The Boolooroo has ordered the patching to take place tomorrow morning after breakfast.
The idea of patching Cap'n Bill to a goat was vastly amusing to him, and the more he thought of it the more he roared with laughter.
You'd better save your City first and do your patching afterward.
This is about the meanest Boolooroo who ever ruled this land, and he was the first to inventpatching people as a punishment.
The slicing and patchingproves it, and so do lots of other things.
What they ask is only temporary; if we let things slip along from year to year, patching up and patching on, we'll never be better off.
These were pinned at the belt of the active housewife, and hung swaying against her skirts if she rose from her sewing, or were conveniently at hand if she sat patching or embroidering.
And by the way, have the second mate get up the old spare sails in his morning watch; we have some roping and patching to do before we bend them.
There is no mat-making, model-making nor patching old clothes in their watch below.
I don't want our Government to be bothered bypatching up local governments, or by trying to reconcile any class of men.
I was patching up Madam Hermansen's leg the other day.
Thus armed, she told the Committee roundly that they were proposing to sink money in patching up a "pest-house, where a number of people are exposed to the risk of fatal illness from a special hospital disease.
Foiled in her attempt to improve the Hospital root and branch, she used in good part the opportunities which Lord Panmure gave her of patching up "the patient," as she called it, so far as was still possible.
There was a meeting at Lord Grey's of Ministers and Ministerial adherents, it was supposed for the purpose of his patching up matters, but I know nothing of what occurred.
Once or twice he wondered if there was no possibility of patching up a peace; but he knew in his heart that she was too straight to tolerate his methods, and he told himself it was a pity.
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