It might be my bad luck but the shoe-mender from the street below always seems to be changing his clothes on the stairs. From Wordnik.com. [A Home for Bookworms] Reference
And lungs, that lack'd the bellows-mender's touch. From Wordnik.com. [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference
The sail mender was brought to dress her for the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Machineries of Joy]
They made an effort, and got the old road-mender to drinking. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Marriage mender Dr. Robi Ludwig, pardon -- says she can do that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2006] Reference
The road mender is working in the dust when he meets another Jacques. From Wordnik.com. [The WritingYA Weblog: TBR3: Insufferable Happiness, Insufferable Pain] Reference
Bobby looked up at the umbrella-mender with serious alarm in his eyes. From Wordnik.com. ['Me and Nobbles'] Reference
I'm not a particularly good mender, but I am quite pleased with myself. From Wordnik.com. [Mending] Reference
"I'd rather be a maker than a mender, but lots of people aren't either.". From Wordnik.com. [His Big Opportunity] Reference
She no longer wants to be the cook, the mender, the sweeper of the house!. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
I'm also an umbrella-mender and harness-maker, and I can glaze stewing-pans. '. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
"More likely I'm someone very ordinary: a road-mender, or a wandering dog-barber.". From Wordnik.com. [Marune: Alastor 933]
He's brought a man with him called Jacque, who is a road mender, and young and poor. From Wordnik.com. [The WritingYA Weblog: TBR3: A Tale of Two Cities - Sighing for Versailles] Reference
The toy-mender's two thoughtless apprentices had played a joke upon the little cashgirl. From Wordnik.com. [Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir] Reference
The marriage mender, Dr. Robi Ludwig, will join us coming up to tell us about this show. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2006] Reference
Road mender Jacques is still working -- though who might be paying him now, I can't tell. From Wordnik.com. [The WritingYA Weblog: TBR3: Insufferable Happiness, Insufferable Pain] Reference
The mender should use good judgment as to the amount of work to be applied to each garment. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
He worked as a watch-menders apprentice, a painter of propaganda boards, and a photojournalist. From Wordnik.com. [Ma Jian biography] Reference
Emmerich was not a common mender of "old soles," but was the shoemaker to the bon-ton of Baltimore. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference
So far I've been intermittently a rotten ploughman, a fair fence-mender and a skillful whitewasher. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Being himself a mender and universal repairer, he is under the necessity of demanding no man's aid. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 572, October 20, 1832] Reference
A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Death of Julius Caesar] Reference
With reference to the road-mender who fell down last week and injured himself an explanation has now been given. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20] Reference
The gathering was seen by many as a fence-mender following months of disagreements between the U.S. and Afghanistan. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: After the Afghan Summit: Five Key Things To Know About Obama's Problematic Plans] Reference
Have you ever taken your best coat to an "invisible mender" and paid him ten dollars to have him mend two moth holes?. From Wordnik.com. [How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence] Reference
The mender must have a good eye for colors necessary to produce various effects and for the interlacing of the threads. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
Sieur Boulatruelle was that road-mender of Montfermeil whom the reader has already seen in the gloomy parts of this book. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Road-mender and thief as he was, he cherished one dream; he believed in the treasures buried in the forest of Montfermeil. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Your lace-mender is too good for you, but not good enough for me; neither physically nor morally does she come up to my ideal of a woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
I once asked a computer-mender friend to check which ones were useable. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Bob Archiable, the itinerant clock mender, when aboard his floating home. From Wordnik.com. [The House Boat Boys] Reference
Whereat a blue-turbaned huge-boned plough-mender shouted, 'Have hope, mother o' mine!. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Handicap] Reference
If so does anyone know a washing machine (Zanussi) mender and how much would you expect-ish to pay?. From Wordnik.com. [London SE1 community website] Reference
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