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An old blue suit of well-patched clothes sufficed for him; but he must needs have a rose or violet in his buttonhole, with which the ladies of Soleure took care to keep him supplied.

From Kościuszko A Biography by Gardner, Monica M. (Monica Mary)

Such, then, was my jacket: a well-patched, padded, and porous one; and in a dark night, gleaming white as the White Lady of Avenel!

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Melville, Herman

He found no pockets in his well-patched overcoat when he took it down, but he pursued the dust into its lining, and separated it carefully from little dabs of wool.

From Old Man Savarin and Other Stories by Thomson, Edward William

He wore a calico shirt and well-patched trousers of great antiquity and stockings and cowhide shoes sadly in need of repairs.

From Robert Coverdale's Struggle Or, On The Wave Of Success by Alger, Horatio

Another will only relieve those who are clothed in well-patched rags, or “real misery;” and then the appearance must be that of squalid destitution.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various