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'And you think that mends matters, said Arthur, laughing. 'Well, I hope Theodora will marry St. Erme at once, so as to serve him right. I am sure she will if she hears of this. 'And I am afraid Miss Gardner will write to her. 'That she will, with nice histories of you and me and Annette. And she will tell them at Worthbourne till old Sir Antony disinherits Percy. No more than he deserves!
And as soon as the weather mends you must try some fishing; I dare say I can fit you up, and young Dale here will lend a hand." "Oh yes," I said eagerly. "And don't know anything about it, eh?" I stared at him in surprise. "Why, I've fished at sea hundreds of times, sir," I said. "Whiffing, long line, trot, and bulter; and we used to go out to the rocks off Falmouth to set small trammels."
Jowala Singh, the smith, mends the village plows some thirty, broken at the share, in three hundred and sixty-five days; and Hukm Chund, who is letter-writer and head of the little club under the travellers' tree, generally keeps the village posted in such gossip as the barber and the mid-wife have not yet made public property.
Yes; but did ever two shoes have the same mends in the same places of the netting, where it had been broken, and the same marks on the frames?" "Never. It will go hard with Cloudbrow if this is true." "It will go hard with him whether it is true or not," returned the woman; "for some of the friends of Perrin believe it to be true, and swear "
Olive laughed a little. "He is the son of the cobbler who mends my boots," she whispered. "He is trying to learn English and I have lent him some books, and that is why he has come to do us honour. I think it is charming of him." She took a white magnolia blossom from a glass dish on her table. "Shall I be mediæval too?" The boy raised smiling eyes as the pale flower came fluttering down to him.
The wife of a workingman still has a distinct economic value to her husband. She cooks, cleans, washes, and mends services for which, before his marriage, he paid ready money. The wife of the successful business or professional man does not do this. He continues to pay for his cooking, house service, and washing.
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. We talk desperately for a little after that, but soon again the awful pall creeps down." "If I were there," cried Grizel, "I would not have the parlour standing empty all this time." "We are coming to the parlour," Tommy replies impressively.
"He mends our boots, and tells us stories, and he's got a bird named Coppertoes." "So you are a friend of my boys," said father. "Ay. And they're grand little lads, sir. I have a daughter of my own I'm very proud of, sir. She was lost for seventeen years, and your sons helped me to find her." His daughter came to the door then to call him to breakfast.
Captain Mends, of the "gallant Arethusa," remembering the fame of her name, though he had only his sails to depend on, ran in as close as the depth of water would allow, and opened a heavy fire from his 9-inch shell guns, and repeated his manoeuvres till recalled by a signal from the flag-ship.
Her cruse, it is broken; But he mends it with thread, And draws water with her: He cried to Ayesha: 'Give me my sabre, That I kill the merle Perched on the dunghill Where she dreams; She has eaten all my olives." A sort of sandal. Affectionate term for a child. Hanoteau, v. 441-443.
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