1898 examples of mending in sentences

There was rapid mending after this, you may be sure.

It was plain the house had weathered a bad storm, but our fortunes were mending

Knitting rooms were opened, clothing depots, mending rooms, where donated clothing was repaired, and in one month fifty-six thousand orders for milk, five hundred thousand for bread, and three hundred thousand for meals were distributed for the city authorities.

When mending their clothes, the foxglove gives them thimbles; and many other flowers might be added which are equally in request for their various needs.

As it was, he had anticipated his meagre salary by more than a year, and had to be content with very inferior oxen, and a wagon which required constant mending throughout the journey.

"This is for mother for her mending" Mäzli called out looking with suspense at her uncle's fingers.

"Come here now and sit down beside me and get your mending-basket right away so that you won't have to jump up again.

She said she could do the mending of the long socks that the women wear when they ride barebacked, but we had to shut down on ma's going with the show, cause we never could have any fun with a woman to look after.

I like everything but doing his mending, and mother says I must learn to do that.

The lovely white bed in the alcove, the three windows with lace curtains dropping to the floor, the grate with its soft, bright fire, the round table under the chandelier, with Miss Prudence writing letters and I always writing, studying, or mending.

To entail irreversible poverty upon generation after generation, only because the ancestor happened to be poor, is, in itself, cruel, if not unjust, and is wholly contrary to the maxims of a commercial nation, which always suppose and promote a rotation of property, and offer every individual a chance of mending his condition by his diligence.

The brindle cow has got into the corn, and the fence wants mending down by the pool; you must get William to help you, and do it at once.

When he's not cobbling, he's reading,when not reading, he's cobbling, or mending clocks, and watches, and, betwixt this and that, my comrade has picked up a power of information,though he lost his leg a doing of itin a gale of windoff the Cape of Good Hope, for my comrade was a sailor, sir.

In the garden on the bench under the large apple-tree, Mother and Auntie were sitting mending and conversing over the bringing-up of the children; for Auntie knew many a good advice, quite new and not worn out.

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

Instead of that, the two kept on mending the stockings; Father did not even look up from his paper and Edi had only a satirical remark for sympathy.

The rest was my own invention, to make my Almanack sell; having a wife to maintain, and no other way to get my bread: for mending old shoes is a poor livelihood!

I went out and played in the garden instead of mending my stockings, and Father found out."

" Avery was laying her mending together.

Jeanie's leg was mending rapidly, and gave her little trouble now.

We had an Enfield Nurse for seven weeks, and just as she seem'd mending, she was call'd away.

I am happy to say Mary is mending, but not enough to give me hopes of being able to leave her.

" This is spoken to a group of Sea-Titans, who are sitting about on the pier-way behind him, in red caps, blue jackets, striped jerseys, bright brown trousers, and all the picturesque comfort of a fisherman's costume, superintending the mending of a boat.

I.The Water Sprite About a century ago an aged fisherman sat mending his nets by his cottage door, in front of a lovely lake.

In the midst of the hired servants, "in the ship mending their nets." [Footnote 75: Acts, xviii.

1898 examples of  mending  in sentences