What is "patchwork"

Usage examples of "patchwork".

Partly in the hope that I could somehow clarify those foggy, clairvoyant perceptions of danger and see exactly what violence lay ahead, and partly because I was determined not to be intimidated by the aura of evil that clung to the big machine, I shrugged off the backpack I had been carrying, unrolled my sleeping bag, and made ready to pass the last hours of the night right there in the faint patchwork of purple-black shadows and ash-gray moonlight, with the wheel looming over me.

Much of the history of cryptology of this time is a patchwork, a crazy quilt of unrelated items, sprouting, flourishing, withering.

A black speck floated far off in the blue sky, high above the patchwork woods of the city of trees, far beyond the archipelagos of floating gardens.

Instead she casually opened her patchwork coat, revealing a curious amulet around her neck.

I came suddenly upon a little, open meadow and the realization of my wish, for there stood three of the pointed tents of slaves consisting of a number of poles leaning inward and lashed together at the top, the whole covered by a crazy patchwork consisting of the skins of animals sewn together.

Two were stripped to the waist, slabby, downy, while the third was just a leaning patchwork of studded leather and jean rag.

Mark opened it out, spreading the seven by eighteen foot water-proof tarpaulin cover on the ground, exposing the two suggans, heavy patchwork quilts and a couple of blankets as well as his depleted war bag which contained ammunition and spare clothing.

The patchwork engines of the deep-draught Merrimac made her as unhandy as if she had been water-logged, while the light-draught Monitor could not only play round her when close-to but maneuver all over the surrounding shallows as well.

In the valley the pattern of fields was exact and crowded as a new patchwork quilt, varicoloured and of many textures.

The manor-keep of Lord Withen Ashkevron of Forst Reach was a strange and patchworked structure.

The woman wore a long coat of patchwork leather, colorful and dramatic.

Her body in the lamplight is a pale patchwork of faint tan and peeling pink and the natural yellowy tint of her skin.

She wore a patchwork coat that swirled around her as if alive, shifting with the colors of the brick and misty rain.

This open and declared intention of establishing a world order out of the present patchwork of particularist governments, of effacing the militarist conceptions that have hitherto given governments their typical form, and of removing credit and the broad fundamental processes of economic life out of reach of private profit-seeking and individual monopolization, which is the substance of this Open Conspiracy to which the modern religious mind must necessarily address its practical activities, cannot fail to arouse enormous opposition.

The weather being now so cold that the boiler-steam heating of the compartments was barely perceptible, they rode the whole way, awake or asleep, in their recently bought fur coats, plus gloves, hats, mufflers, and all the patchwork lap robes the provodnik could find for them.