darning

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At two she made a little toilette for dinner, and was employed on numberless household darnings and mendings in the long evenings while her sisters giggled over the jingling piano.

From Boys and girls from Thackeray by Sweetser, Kate Dickinson

Who has told of the turnings, the dyings, the ironings, the darnings, that have gone to make misses of ten pounds a-year pin-money look as smart as the squanderer of five hundred?

From The Widow Barnaby Vol. I (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

The drawings were copies, and the needlework resembling the darnings in the hose to be seen on the heels of the ladies sitting in the country markets.

From Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman by Stone, William L. (William Leete)

Then Deacon took to teaching of him regular and I set in to save all I could from the thin peeling of potatoes to worser darnings and patches than this.

From The Road to Providence by Daviess, Maria Thompson

The silver hasps, and some of the ornaments of these garments, are still perfect, though it has undergone so many darnings, as to be little else.

From A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume 2 by Thicknesse, Philip