Lear: Old bone-Patcher, old digger in men's flesh, Doctors are ever itching to be priests, Meddling in conduct, natures, life's privacies.
"Georgian Poetry 1913-15"
Edited by E. M. (Sir Edward Howard Marsh)
Why, harkee, master of mine, cried Peter, turning suddenly upon him with a countenance that almost petrified the Patcher of shoes into a perfect lapstone, dost thou pretend to meddle with the movements of government to regulate, and correct, and patch, and cobble a complicated machine, the principles of which are above thy comprehension, and its simplest operations too subtle for thy understanding, when thou canst not correct a trifling error in a common piece of mechanism, the whole mystery of which is open to thy inspection?
"Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete"
Washington Irving
"Sam Lamb's wife Sukey sho' is a beautiful Patcher," he remarked, feeling his way.
"Miss Minerva and William Green Hill"
Frances Boyd Calhoun