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Octavius sneeringly replies, "You patch'd up your excuses" as good as abandoned his partner's letters to Egypt "when rioting in Alexandria."
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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Octavius sneeringly replies, "You patch'd up your excuses" as good as abandoned his partner's letters to Egypt "when rioting in Alexandria."
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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Here I continued for some time: and tho I say't, behav'd my self so well, that I was prefer'd to the best Gentlemen; for tho, my Natural Beauty had been much decay'd, yet I by Art so patch'd it up again, that I by my good
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There! in that greasy, patch'd and reeking leather,
Cromwell Alfred B. Richards
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Save one dull pane that coarsely patch'd gives way
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Her back was toward me, and at the shoulder, where the coat had been cut away from my wound, I saw the rents all darn'd and patch'd with pack thread.
The Splendid Spur Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Which if they're torn, and turn'd, and patch'd enough
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807
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The verse patch'd up at length -- with like ill fortune
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays Charles Lamb 1804
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Save one dull pane, that, coarsely patch'd, gives way
The Village and the Newspaper George Crabbe 1793
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Save one dull pane, that, coarsely patch'd, gives way
The Village and the Newspaper George Crabbe 1793
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