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lay a patch



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I wanted to grab the wheel and lay a patch.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Straight opposite, in the middle of all this forest verdure, there lay a patch of white, like driven snow.

From Immensee by Storm, Theodor

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

Soundness in painting consists in being able to lay a patch of color having exactly the right shape and tint.

From The Intellectual Life by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert




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