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Usage examples of patched.

Then, blundering about and bellowing like a wounded rhino, he staggered out front and shoveled a big sluiceway in the recently patched ditch bank, allowing almost the entire acequia flow to cascade into his already soggy front vega.

All taken as a totality, since that Authentic All is not a thing patched up out of external parts, but is authentically an all because its parts are engendered by itself.

They went to Milan without having patched up their quarrel, but the Milanese Government ordered them to leave Lombardy, and I never heard what arrangements they finally came to.

They could be patched with wood whittled to size and pounded in, caulked withwell, caulked with something or other.

In addition to the coxcomb, therefore, the Fool wears a costume of rough varicolored wool, so that he is a melange of patched colors.

But, by way of recreation, after the supper dishes had been washed up, Gertie darned socks, mended shirts, patched trousers for the men folk or sewed on some garment for herself.

Once a robotic toy companion, a crude electromotive toy from the first decade of the twenty-first century, Aineko was progressively upgraded and patched and periodically migrated to a new hardware platform -- until, by some time in the third or fourth decade, it acquired an agenda of its own.

His armour was patched up of a thousand incoherent pieces, and the sound of it, as he marched, was loud and dry, like that made by the fall of a sheet of lead, which an Etesian wind blows suddenly down from the roof of some steeple.

The same afternoon saw the long column of the prisoners on its way to Modder River, there to be entrained for Cape Town, the most singular lot of people to be seen at that moment upon earth--ragged, patched, grotesque, some with goloshes, some with umbrellas, coffee-pots, and Bibles, their favourite baggage.

He had often patched his torn garments or his quilted hacqueton rent in battle.

The wind was even louder now: the hardboard that had patched the broken window flew in with a clatter, and a thick stench of burning began to fill the dark space of the church.

A tattered, patched cloak covered him to the eyebrows and he held it from within against the wind that drove the merchanter past Eirrin and onto Magh Rian.

I saw David when he was sick with mumps and I patched him up once or twice after rugger.

At short intervals there are walled-up gateways, round-headed or ogival in form, and the whole surface is rent and patched.

The Reo was having to have her tires patched twice a day, and slow leaks were blown up every time the car stopped for gasoline.