He was a fair carpenter, and getting some tools from the carpenter's chest, he mended the boat.

Is this creature to mend our crooked ways?

It did not mend matters that Maudie was there to hold him down before a lot of men.

To avoid this difficulty, in two very wealthy families that I know, the boys were even obliged to darn their own stockings and mend their own clothes.

Mother and Auntie were mending stockings; Father was reading a large church paper.

If it was rattled she mended her pace for a block.

"And another to make him mend his roads as well as mend his ways.

The camp was easily aroused by the morning watch, as there was now only six miles between us and the landing-place in Hearson cove, the horses appearing to partake of the general activity; so that it was only 10.0 a.m. when we arrived on our old camping ground, which we found occupied by ten or a dozen natives, engaged mending their nets.

His Highness promised to mend his manners, and from that time was very assiduous in waiting upon her.

Cartwright's father, however, had used sailing ships too long, and Cartwright's speculations and extravagance when he took control had not mended its fortunes.

All the time I was at the E. I. H. I never mended a pen; I now cut 'em to the stumps, marring rather than mending the primitive goose-quill.

"By making and mending their shoes.

She was to leave the house on the morrow, having already sent her child to the Foundling Hospital; and in the meantime she was mending some things for Rosine, the well-to-do young person of great beauty whom Mathieu had previously espied, and whose story, according to Norine, was so sadly pathetic.

Now every passing school-boy helped himself to the wan, withered, and scanty fruit; and nobody had thought it worth while to mend the dilapidated fences which might have helped to shut them out.

And he mended the holes in his ears.

She slept in one of the two other beds which the room contained, and now sat beside it mending some linen.

' "Believe me, old age is the worst time we can choose to mend either our lives or our fortunes.

The king was obliged to mend this sad state of affairs, and send to Holland for a gardener in order to cultivate those pot-herbs, in the growth of which England is now, perhaps, not behind any other country in Europe.

They overhauled their dunnage carefully, mended the broken moose-skin harness, and looked after one of the animals that had gone a little lame from a sore pad.

" As she flung the cream from end to end of the barrel-churn, while her mother sat beside her mending the boys' shirts for the Sabbath, Mary said to herself: "A sister is born for adversity, tooyou bet."

He made a new pen, washed and refilled his inkstand, mended his "abominable!" chair, and after two hours more made another attempt, and another failure.

Would you mind if I mended the fire?"

More years may teach you better; the mean while, If you can't mend your Morals, mend your Style.

I do forget ofttimes my friar's part; But pull me by the sleeve when I exceed, And you shall see me mend that fault indeed.

It was never too late for even a bricklayer to mend his garments or his manners and adjust them to the occasion.