lay a patch
Example Sentences
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I wanted to grab the wheel and lay a patch.
From Time Magazine Archive
No glacier was visible now, however—only, on the rocky summit lay a patch or two of the last winter’s snow-drift, which was too deep for the summer sun to melt away.
From The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
Slowly the Flying Fish forged ahead till right under her bow lay a patch of the yellow water.
From The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol by Goldfrap, John Henry
Before him lay a patch of gray-green bay, flanked on either side by wharves upon which two black-hulled lumber schooners were disgorging their resinous cargo.
From Broken to the Plow by Dobie, Charles Caldwell
Straight opposite, in the middle of all this forest verdure, there lay a patch of white, like driven snow.
From Immensee by Storm, Theodor
