net-mender

Her only answer was to lead him into the room where the old net-mender lay helpless, turning appealing eyes to her as she entered, with the look in them that one sees in the eyes of a grateful dumb animal.

Georgina of the Rainbows 1897

She would go with him and do the asking, she added, but Belle had promised to take her with her the next time she went to see the net-mender, and the next time would be the following afternoon, if Tippy was well enough to be up and around.

Georgina of the Rainbows 1897

Then I groped my way back to the harbour, where, I was told, the old net-mender, who came to see me on my first visit to the islands, was spending the night as watchman.

The Aran Islands 1890

The net-mender pursued the subject with the kind of gravity on him that always comes on a seaman when drowning is under discussion.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

But some noisy visitors from the new St. Sennans on the cliff above had made an irruption into the little old fishing-quarter, and the attention of the net-mender was distracted by possibilities of a boat-to-day being foisted on their simplicity; it was hardly rough enough to forbid the idea.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

As he repassed the net-mender with a short word or two for valediction, his ear was caught by a loud voice among the party of visitors, who were partly sitting on the beach, partly throwing stones in the water.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

The young net-mender looked behind the chimney-piece, and answered,

Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 Eug��ne Sue 1830

He's that old net-mender who lives alone out on the edge of town near the cranberry bogs. "

Georgina of the Rainbows 1897