“The tailor would quickly sew a mend in his trouser pocket.”

“Yesterday, he was ill, and now he is on the mend, and tomorrow he will be quite better.”

“It is the time reserved for the building of things inside, the fixing of small things broken, and the mending of tools and furniture.”

“He could feel the slow mending of his bones and muscles, and the restoration of his strength both physical and metaphysical.”

“A skilful patient mender will repair the cloth so that you simply cannot see where the hole was.”

“Annie worked as a burler and mender and Roy became a self-employed painter and decorator, which saw him through to retirement.”

“It was the turn of the mender of roads to say it this time, after observing these operations.”

“The quote was based on photographs taken of the cloak, as Steinhauser would not allow Graham to take the cloak to the menders, based in London.”

“The majority of combers, spinners, cob winders, spoolers, beamers, weavers, menders, and other workers were female.”

“The road menders provide an example of how the citizens of Nowhere might come to volunteer for arduous but necessary labour and even find pleasure in it.”