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Easy 'tis following the chariot That by Fortune is driven, Like the baggage that moves Over well-mended highways After the train of a prince.

From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Bowring, Edgar Alfred

Do not all strangers who visit us praise our well-mended gateways, And the well-whited tower, the church so neatly repair'd too?

From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Bowring, Edgar Alfred

He could judge for himself what sort of a girl Cherry was, by her appearance, and her clean, well-mended frock.

From Cornwall's Wonderland by Quiller-Couch, Mabel

He was lifted into the boat by the tail, the triangles came out easily under the knife, and off went a well-mended fish of about 13 lb.

From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by Senior, William

A similar bit of frivolity was practised by another fish ten minutes later at my middle rod, which, I forgot to say, had brought the well-mended kelt to bank.

From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by Senior, William