Example Sentences

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Puffing contentedly on a black pipe, Alsop dismissed the rift in the party, said: "I'm a pretty good patcher."

From Time Magazine Archive

Ah! in the presence of this humble patcher, I remember that a wise man said, 'A king is but a man to his valet de chambre.'

From Frederick the Great and His Family by Coleman, Chapman, Mrs.

"You'd best keep a sharp eye, Van Note," he said; "this is a dirty bit of water, and you've two great men aboard: one patcher of the body, t' other of the soul."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 by Various

Romulus was a salter and a patcher of patterns....”

From A Modern Utopia by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Not the original Homer, but some later matcher and patcher, imitator or redactor.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques