99 collocations for patch

On March 25, 1919, Lloyd George presented the following memorandum to the conference: I When nations are exhausted by wars in which they have put forth all their strength and which leave them tired, bleeding and broken, it is not difficult to patch up a peace that may last until the generation which experienced the horrors of the war has passed away.

Oh, I can see it all now,everything, everything; how you patched things together, even to that blotting-pad which I had used after directing my letter to my uncle, Berkeley Pelham, who lives in Brazil.

Fain would he have patched up the quarrel between Naples and the papacy by mutual concessions, because he foresaw what would happen if the colossal northern powers had their cupidity aroused regarding Italy, and learned how defenceless she really was.

We lost all interest in the voyage, cared nothing about the cargo, while we were only collecting for others, began to patch our clothes, and felt as though we were fixed beyond hope of change.

She had been looking over the travellers' boots and "mitts," and now, without a word or even a look being exchanged upon the subject, she sat there in the corner, by the dim, seal-oil light, sewing on new thongs, patching up holes, and making the strange men tidymen she had never seen before and would never see again.

The ancients assumed all heavenly motion to be circular of necessity, and where facts gave against them, they patched the matter up with an epicycle or two.

I'd about as soon go to jail, Bill, as patch tires for tourists; I" "You don't have to," said Bill, his grin widening.

But reading of a lighter kind was also indulged in, and on winter nights, when the mother was plying her spinning-wheel and the father had taken down his cobbler's box and was busily engaged patching the children's shoes, it was a regular practice for John to sit near the dim oil-lamp and read to the rest.

If you can't find anything to buy with them you can use them to patch the new paper trousers.

They must have had a good heart-to-heart talk, for when Roland appeared again, he was smiling broadly, and hastened to say: "We've not only patched up a truce, boys, but made an enduring covenant.

Ellen loved music, and was willing to have him read profitable books, but all this while she thought he might be patching up the fences and improving the shed for the better comfort of the cattle.

There was never a hint here that the men were pitted against one another in the fiercest rivalry of the North; for they were ever ready to help their opponents to patch a broken harness, mend a sled, or care for the dogsjust as, on the way, they give fair warning of overflows or other obstacles.

Later Campbell told me one of the men had dropped a leg through crossing a sludgy patch some 200 yards from the ship.

For this Mystic philosophy that we call Sufism patched up a sort of peace between the old Persian and the conquering Mohammedan.

"'Can your lady patch hearts that are breaking With handfuls of coals and rice, Or by dealing out flannel and sheeting A little below cost price?

He went about three o'clock," went on Angus, endeavoring to patch up a shaky story with a little interesting detail.

Philosophy should seek this kind of living understanding of the movement of reality, not follow science in vainly patching together fragments of its dead results.

The fashion of paving the village-street, and patching one shabby house on the gable-end of another, quite shuts out all verdure and pleasantness; but, I presume, we are not likely to see a more genuine old Scotch village, such as they used to be in Burns's time, and long before, than this of Mauchline.

Mr. Willshire found the means of patching up the business with the Moorish authorities, and the case was soon forgotten.

Gammer Gurton is patching the leather breeches of her man Hodge, when Gib, the cat, gets into the milk pan.

Thus, it is intimated to us by many English writers, that they regard the North now as simply undertaking to patch up a Union founded and sustained by mean compromises, an object which has already led us into many humiliating concessions,and that the moment we announce that we are striking a blow for Liberty, we shall have their sympathy without stint or measure.

Meanwhile, Marguerite had approached her father, and was patching together the important scraps.

Oh, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a Wall, t'expell the winters flaw.

I fainted from loss of blood, and don't remember anything else until I found myself in a tent, with two Cossacks patching up my wound.

The bishop confesses, if we mistake not, to have patched one end of the ballad.

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