Lexicographical Neighbors of Patchings
Literary usage of Patchings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... painting in opaque pigment upon the glass and breaking up this painted surface
into patchings and spots as when an artist draws in crayon or charcoal. ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1809)
"As the wood porch, and-a few casual patchings to the trunks, are fastened on with
wooden pins; (the general •way in carpentry, ..."
3. The Complete Works of Thomas Dick, Ll.D.: Eleven Volumes in Two by Thomas Dick (1851)
"But after all the ingenuity displayed in their patchings and re- patchings, the
celestial spheres could never be got to move onward in harmony, ..."
4. Celestial Scenery: Or, The Wonders of the Planetary System Displayed by Thomas Dick (1838)
"But after all the ingenuity displayed in their patchings and re- patchings, the
celestial spheres could never be got to move onward in harmony, ..."
5. Round the Block: An American Novel by John Bell] [Bouton (1864)
"There were several patchings very much praised by the Sunday papers, at the last
National Academy Exhibition, though the hanging committee put them either ..."
6. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1880)
"Other patchings followed from time to time, as the process of crushing and settling
went on, till eventually the north and south arches were closed with ..."
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