mender

• “It might be my bad luck but the shoe-mender from the street below always seems to be changing his clothes on the stairs.”

  A Home for Bookworms

• “So I will leave this post here, and go and buy my share of crazy glue, my necessary dose of that instantaneous mender.”

  The Huffington Post: Yoani Sanchez: Can You Fix A Whole Country With Crazy Glue?

• “The street itself had once been full of ordinary shops such as a watch mender and a green grocer, but at the time of my return from Kabul, a housing boom had led to almost all these being replaced by estate agencies, the windows of which were filled with depressing pictures of ugly houses at high prices.”

  Simon & Schuster: Henry’s Demons

• “The gathering was seen by many as a fence-mender following months of disagreements between the U.S. and Afghanistan.”

  The Huffington Post: William Bradley: After the Afghan Summit: Five Key Things To Know About Obama's Problematic Plans

• “There is no formal state dinner at the White House, but a dinner hosted by Biden is intended as a fence-mender.”

  The Huffington Post: Obama Admin To Try To 'Bite Its Tongue' During Karzai Visit

• “Put Obama next to McCain and ask the world, Who do you want to represent the U.S. in the world, a self-pronounced searcher out of evil or a mender of relations?”

  McCain defends his 'bearings'

• “He worked as a watch-mender’s apprentice, a painter of propaganda boards, and a photojournalist.”

  Ma Jian biography

• “They speak of McTavish, the "Trouble-mender," whom Grief had assigned to pacify New Gibbon, the tough Scotchman at present in Malaita starting a plantation.”

  “Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?”

• “GAREN Miq was a tinker and a peddler-a mender of small odds and ends, and seller of this and that-whose route took him all the way to the border, through every small farming villages there was.”

  Fictionaut: Tran Siberian

• “It goes *back to the mender as soon as I can get it there!”

  Loss: the 'real' Bucket List

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