well-patched-up

Updated: June 26, 2025

Guy was evidently "packing up" this time, not because he had been "dunned" for half-a-year's board, though that would have been no new item in his well-patched-up experience. He was going away, and I doubt if ever a man felt half so sorry for being "naughty" as Guy Elersley felt on this particular evening.

[pseud.] Vera - Honor Edgeworth: Ottawa's Present Tense