But the patched-up truce was only a temporary one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference

This patched-up mess was not up to my usual standards.    From Wordnik.com.  [TBTAM and the Three Cakes - A Cautionary Tale] Reference

You won't make everybody believe that patched-up story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story] Reference

"We want no patched-up peace," says Mr. RAMSAY MACDONALD.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917] Reference

Often we are content, even happy, with our patched-up lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution (Jewish Women's Archive)] Reference

In New Orleans, can those patched-up levees take the pressure?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2005] Reference

At all events they got tired, and there was a patched-up peace.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mask of Apollo]

Even then, it is preceded by patched-up compromises and interventions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Their Separate Ways] Reference

It was a patched-up affair, but it provided a base for a canvas covering.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]

The match will be played on a horribly patched-up pitch at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.    From Wordnik.com.  [World Cup 2010: Fabio Capello says his England team can reach final] Reference

Could a quickly patched-up to tragic rift between any/all of the former and the US be avoided?.    From Wordnik.com.  [AGU Day 0: Restarting the Climate Conversation | Serendipity] Reference

Some houses had boarded up windows, and others looked more like patched-up shanties than homes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flowers for Algernon]

Rumata sat up in bed and clasped his hands around his knees underneath the patched-up elegant coverlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard to be a god]

'But I had a few patched-up Centurions with me, and we picked up a few more en route, and we sorted it out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alamut Ambush]

But if the assaults upon pacifist meetings continue we feel sure there will be some patched-up peacemongers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917] Reference

About half way up this, almost hidden by saplings and vines, Dave made out a grim looking patched-up building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference

The walls are papered with Metallica posters; its sound system is a pair of battered amps and patched-up mikes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grozny Live] Reference

This patched-up peace, which may last about six months (even if it is ever signed), is producing confusion everywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Anerley] Reference

Broad-shouldered and tall, he was dressed in a patched-up coat, in a clean chintz shirt, and reddish homespun trousers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother] Reference

There is nothing so poor as a dirty, faded, and patched-up ball-dress; the dancer had better stay at home than wear such.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manners and Social Usages] Reference

Probably she's still stuck in the sixties, no makeup, straight hair, granny glasses, patched-up bell-bottoms, and Earth Shoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jinx High]

The British destroyers rapidly outdistanced their pursuers, even though the patched-up Hardy could make no better than 26 knots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castles of Steel]

He had those blue eyes and that regal nose and a kind of still dignity to his face, caused by badly patched-up skin cancer surgeries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bailey White: 'What Would They Say in Birmingham?'] Reference

Are patched-up England as stretched as they might seem?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Coach Robey had put in a somewhat patched-up team today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Left Guard Gilbert] Reference

His patched-up heart patients kept returning for repairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com -] Reference

Mat King when he was a patched-up, barefooted little boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Girl in Old Boston] Reference

New Zealand finished the tournament with a patched-up side shorn.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Obama envoy warns of 'no deal' summit] Reference

The game between the patched-up first nine and the scrub nine resulted in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch The Cowboys' Double Round-Up] Reference

A patched-up Werder side held Bayern Munich to a goalless draw at home on Saturday and.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC Sport | Football | World Edition] Reference

Who can care a straw, really, how the old patched-up Constitution is tinkered at any more?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in Love] Reference

Fidel Castro, further cementing a patched-up rapport with a man who once told Chavez to shut up.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Obama choisit de parier sur la jeunesse africaine ] Reference