154 Verbs to Use for the Word patch

The other leaned out from the rails and Lister, studying him with the glasses, saw a small patch, like sticking plaster, on his forehead.

Diggory turned his head, to find the far-off patch of light replaced by a spark of fiery red, and the terrible truth flashed across his mind that in the excitement of the moment he could not remember for certain which was the down line.

We also passed some large patches of flowers in the fields, which were cultivated for the London flower-market.

At the bottom of every dell we found little homesteads embosomed in wild brush and vines wherever the recession of the hills left patches of arable ground.

The moon shone down brightly into the narrow street and showed a great patch of blood amid the cobblestones.

He was a distinguished-looking manalways wore a black patch over one eyehe had been wounded in the Crimea.

Finally she reached an open patch on the hillside, where she began to feed, digging up the roots of the salmon-berry bushes at the edge of the snow.

The keenest of thinkers strikes a bad patch occasionally.

At various times scattered settlers have located along the Blue, and cultivated small garden patches.

The eruption will first be perceived about the head and face, in the form of small red spots, at first distinct from each other, but soon coalescing, and forming patches of an irregular crescent-like or semilunar figure, of a dull red colour, and slightly elevated (giving a sensation of hardness to the finger), while portions of the skin intervening between them will retain their natural appearance.

To reach it they had to cross a sloping green patch of cleared land.

Here and there, under the huge coniferous trees, lay patches of snow still unmelted, though the month was June.

At twelve miles we entered a patch of open grassy forest, extending for some miles; but as there was no promise of obtaining water, and the day was calm and sultry, we turned to the northward in the hope that water might be procurable under the low sand-hills that line this portion of the coast.

The moon, rising behind a bank of cloud, threw patches of light now and then across the path: the girl's head, as she rode through them, came into quick relief.

" "Tell me," said Patsy, with a smile, "did you ever rob a melon-patch, Mr. McNutt?"

In several places I noticed dark red patches where a pool of blood had curdled and caked, as some poor fellow poured his life out on the sod.

And now we perceived that the valley was filled with them, all, that is, save a great circular patch where nothing appeared to be growing; though we were not yet at a sufficient height to ascertain the reason of this.

The sun, shining through the trees, cast patches of golden light on the stone sidewalk, and, as the girls passed from sunshine to shadow, they made a bright, and sometimes a dimmer, picture on the street, whereon were other groups of maidens.

The light slowly increased, and he watched the patches it made on the window-panes broadening and brightening.

Let's away, this place is rank o' deviltries and witchcraft" "Show me, Rogercome!" Perforce, Roger led the way, very heedful to avoid each patch of shadow, until they were come opposite that cave where aforetime Beltane had been customed to sleep.

This spring I planted that patch of ground with it, anticipatin the biggest crop of pie timber in the State.

I hunted about in the darkness until I discovered a small patch of fairly dry grass which had been more or less protected from the rain by an overhanging rock.

We particularly observed huge patches of ground covered with salt, which, at a distance, appeared just like water.

" "But at least I might clear that patch of brushwood round the birch sapling which lies between the east face and the edge of the forest.

And looky there, one shoe, the right, has got a patch on it, a piece that runs to a point.

154 Verbs to Use for the Word  patch