Molly contented herself with making a face at him, and the two by the fire continued their rather patchy discourse:- "I have sometimes thought," said Sara, "that we will have to leave here now, though I haven't much of an idea where we should go, or what I could do-but I must do something soon."
"Sara, a Princess"
Fannie E. Newberry
But the hero is patchy and improbable: the heroine, a good and quite possible girl, is not sufficiently "reliefed out"; and the most important figures of the book, Lord and Lady Delacour, almost great successes, are not helped by the peculiar academic-didactic moralising which she had caught from Marmontel.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
In the patchy glare of the kerosene lamps, against the bunting which lined the corrugated walls of Gulland's new iron store, among flower and weed of township and of station, did Miss Bouverie seek in vain for a single eye-glass and a military mustache.
"Stingaree"
E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung