"Mender" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... saw him from afar, ran to meet him, and, falling on his pack, besought him for "two-three-drops-o'-c'logne" with such fervor that the mothers had to haul them off by main force, in order themselves to approach his redolence; but when the clock-mender appeared, with his little bag, propriety walked before him, and the naughtiest scion of the flock would ...
— Tiverton Tales • Alice Brown
... got the tools to do it with. I'm also an umbrella-mender and harness-maker, and I can ...
— Selected Polish Tales • Various
... Snug the Ioyner, Bottome the Weauer, Flute the bellowes-mender, Snout the Tinker, ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... in every phase. The event that robbed Rudd of his wife, his child, his hope, had taken also his companion, his cook, his chambermaid, his washerwoman, the mender of his things; and in their place had left an appalling monument of bills. The only people he had permitted himself to owe money to were the gruesome committee that brought him his grief; the doctor, ...
— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes
... was a furbisher of armour. The King Tigranes, a mender of thatched houses. Galien Restored, a taker of moldwarps. The four sons of Aymon were all toothdrawers. Pope Calixtus was a barber of a woman's sine qua non. Pope Urban, a bacon-picker. Melusina was a kitchen drudge-wench. Matabrune, a laundress. Cleopatra, a crier ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
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