Example Sentences

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Bertie looked soberly down at his old, well-darned mittens.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

He was a tall and very thin man, meanly dressed in a short scanty jacket and well-darned hose.

From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Weyman, Stanley J.

He was a tall and very thin man, meanly dressed in a short, scanty jacket and well-darned hose.

From Under the Red Robe by Weyman, Stanley John

In it were a pair of well-darned kid gloves and two tiny paper packages.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various

Then, while her brothers watched her, deeply interested, she took off her shoes, and in her well-darned little red stockings climbed deliberately upon the grindstone.

From John Ward, Preacher by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell