1894 examples of mends in sentences

so meek, no ass so obstinate; Or her, that owns her faults, but never mends, Because she's honest, and the best of friends; Or her, whose life the Church and scandal share, Forever in a passion, or a prayer; Or her, who laughs at hell, but (like her Grace) Cries, 'Ah! how charming, if there's no such place!'

Right is better than Charity; for Right meets, or even anticipates, normal wants, while Charity only mends failures.

"He so interweaves Truth with probable Fiction, that he puts a pleasing fallacy upon us; mends the intrigues of Fate; and dispenses with the severity of History, to reward that virtue, which has been rendered to us, there, unfortunate.

Then vaunt no more thy noble race, That neither mends thy strength or pace.

[Footnote A: To promote this desirable end an association took place last year, called The African Institution, under the patronage of the Duke of Gloucester, as president, and of the Mends to the African cause, particularly of such as were in parliament, and as belonged to the committee for the abolition of the Slave Trade.

That if Earle Lassingbergh this day refuse To make faire mends for this fowle trespasse done, I will revenge me on his treacherous heart Though I sustaine for him a thousand deaths.

Many other inconveniences are reckoned up by Mercatus, and by Rodericus a Castro, in their tracts de melancholia virginum et monialium; ob seminis retentionem saviunt saepe moniales et virgines, but as Platerus adds, si nubant sanantur, they rave single, and pine away, much discontent, but marriage mends all.

"This unlooseth all that is bound, enlighteneth darkness, mends that is broken, puts life to that which was desperately dying:" makes no respect of offences, or of persons.

When the goodman mends his armour, And trims his helmet's plume; When the good wife's shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom; With weeping and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old."

Why then hee hathe, and the mends is in y'r owne hands: that's all that I can say too't.

Better and better, goodnes never mends so fast in the carrying: nine!

Young Men whose Passions are not a little unruly, give small Hopes of their ever being considerable; the Fire of Youth will of course abate, and is a Fault, if it be a Fault, that mends every Day; but surely unless a Man has Fire in Youth, he can hardly have Warmth in Old Age.

She buys everything I need, cooks for me, waits on me, even mends for me,all for the magnificent sum of eight dollars a month.

His good and becoming clothes put him on thinking that he must behave like people who are so dressed; and silently and steadily his behavior mends."

" "Why, Katie," laughed Wayne, "it must be that he's that same mythical creature known as the man who mends the boats.

I want for a very particulara very imperative reasonto speak at once to theto your friendthat manwhy the man that mends the boats, you know.

"Aunt Kate," Worth burst forth, "let's take the boat and go up and find the man that mends the boats.

"The man that mends the boats says I'll have an air-ship before I die, Aunt Kate.

The mythical being known as the man who mends the boats is a fellow you'll have to avoid, should you ever see him againwhich of course is not likely.

"Worth," she asked, "what is there on the other side of that little island?" "Why, Aunt Katewhy on the other side of it is the man that mends the boats.

"Want me to get the man that mends the boats?" She nodded.

May the blessing of our Father in heaven rest upon the little book and all its mends.

When the strain becomes unendurable, one of us rises and mends the fire with his foot, and then I think the rest of us could say 'Thank you.'

Though it appears formed with the nicest Wisdom, upon the most superficial Survey of it, it still mends upon the Search, and produces our Surprize and Amazement in proportion as we pry into it.

some tribal authority or other mends the road.

1894 examples of  mends  in sentences