My cow has broken her leg, and I must take her to the
mender's shop and have it glued on again.
Monsieur the Marquis cast his eyes over the submissive faces that drooped before him, as the like of himself had drooped before Monseigneur of the Court--only the difference was, that these faces drooped merely to suffer and not to propitiate--when a grizzled mender of the roads joined the group.
The sweet scents of the summer night rose all around him, and rose, as the rain falls, impartially, on the dusty, ragged, and toil-worn group at the fountain not far away; to whom the mender of roads, with the aid of the blue cap without which he was nothing, still enlarged upon his man like a spectre, as long as they could bear it.
Then she dismissed from her mind further thought of the tunnel, for that time, and began to wonder if Aunt Em would not be happy as Royal
Mender of the Stockings of the Ruler of Oz.
"Oh, children of the Prophet, it is known unto you that a Portuguee dog of a Christian clock
mender pollutes the city of Tangier with his presence.
You behold in me, not a private individual, but a public character; not a
mender of locks, but a healer of the wounds of his unhappy country.
A
mender of old shoes, or patcher up of clothes, who made the shoes or clothes worse than he received them, could not have remained thirty days undetected, and would very soon have starved; whereas during more than forty years, Protagoras was corrupting all Hellas, and sending his disciples from him worse than he received them, and he was never found out.
That the landlord was a man of money- making turn was sufficiently testified by the fact of a small bulkhead beneath the tap-room window, in size and shape not unlike a sedan-chair, being underlet to a
mender of shoes: and that he was a being of a philanthropic mind was evident from the protection he afforded to a pieman, who vended his delicacies without fear of interruption, on the very door-step.
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was
mender. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended show, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour--for the horse was soon tackled--was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.
A tyre
mender was shot dead by a customer who had an argument with him four days earlier in Lahore on Friday, according to a local media report.The crime took place in the area of Sandha.
Though she had several jobs in her lifetime Marie mostly worked as a
mender in the local textile industry.
As years pass by, Edward meets different people in many different situations: an older, grieving couple who find comfort in Edwards presence; a hobo and his dog who introduce Edward to a whole community of homeless wanderers; a farmer in need of a scarecrow; a sad little boy and his very ill sister; and, finally, a doll
mender and an old doll who teach Edward an invaluable lesson.