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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

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

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

"Poor thing, poor young thing!" she murmured, gazing at a pair of well-patched boots which she held in her hand.

From Maurice Guest by Richardson, Henry Handel

She had but two gowns in the world—the washed-out linen bed-gown and stuff petticoat in which her work was generally done, and the well-patched serge which replaced it upon holy days.

From For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary by Petherick, Horace