"They're darned near sure to," Chuck replied seriously, heaving what he tried to make resemble a sigh of sympathy.

"He'll probably come in when he sees how it's going to storm" "He don't give a darn for storms," Bert declared.

Every hole in a shirt, every patch in a pair of trousers, and every darn in a stocking, had been examined, and its probable effect on the value of the garment duly estimated.

And Mary herself, from her white cotton gloves, darned at the fingers, to her figure, which mysteriously remained the same in spite of fifteen years of scant Italian fare, does not fit gracefully into the rôle of heroine.

Miss Craydocke thought of the darns; her story cannot be told here; but she knew what it meant to have the darns of life fall to one's share,to have the filling up to do, with dexterousness and pains and sacrifice, of holes that other people make!

The thin, straw-coloured hair; the freckles across his nose; the patches on his leather breeches and the darns on his stockings, were all like themselves, with this exceptionthat they had become diminished.