If a rough touch break the cobweb, all the artists in the world can't mend it.
You cannot mend one crime by another, and you cannot protect a woman from her husband's vengeance.
It was difficult to get men to join in such a venture, but eventually about a hundred were obtained, mostly idlers in the colony who eagerly grasped at anything that would mend their broken fortunes.
On board the Wolf that sacred day had only been observed by the men being allowed to mend their clothes; or if they were not so employed, they used to sit idly gambling or singing ribald songs.
He could lay a roof, or mend a thresher, it was all the same to him.
I can mend you your boats, Tom, but I haven't the tools nor the learning to make a broken squirrel seaworthy.
He used to mend my toy ships for me which I sailed upon the river; he built windmills out of packing-cases and barrel-staves; and he could make the most wonderful kites from old umbrellas.
So I used to spend my time collecting birds' eggs and butterflies, fishing in the river, rambling through the countryside after blackberries and mushrooms and helping the mussel-man mend his nets.
My son will have to hire some one to come here and cook his meals, make his bed, and mend his clothes.
Can you mend the butterfly's broken wing That you crush with a hasty blow?
To tell you the truth, wife, I should not wonder if some terrible thing were to happen to all the people in the village, unless they mend their manners.
For small pictures panels are very useful, and when great detail is desirable, and fine, smooth work would make an accidental tear impossible to mend well, they are most valuable.
I do believe I'll ask mamma--if she has returned--to sew on the buttons and mend the rent.
Come in and wash and mend your frock, As quickly as you can.
The road commissioner'll come along once a year and mend the bridge under our feet, but Old Kennebec'll talk straight on till the day o' jedgment.
Every day that you let slip makes it harder to mend the breach.
I tried to mend the ravelled edges of my courage by reminding myself that Monsieur Charretier couldn't pick me up in his motor-car, and run off with me against my will; but the argument wasn't much of a stimulant.
As for me, I was ordered by Lady Turnour to mend Mr. Stokes's socks, he having made peace by offering to "give her a swagger dinner in town.
I wanted badly to do something to show my gratitude, but could think of nothing except that, by and by, when we knew each other better, I might offer to sew on his buttons or mend his socks.
Perhaps it does not mend the matter when the hated man is the husband.
Her idea was, that such a rip as Sir Lionel would best mend his manners by marriage; by marriage, but not with her.
If a fellow mortal be ragged, humanity will subscribe to mend his clothes; but humanity will subscribe nothing to mend his ragged hopes so long as his outside coat shall be whole and decent.
