Your face and hands are burned, your hair is scorched-yourclothes need mending.

Haven't you other gloves that need mending?'

Young man, your manners need mending.

Martha," he added, turning to his wife, "was it you said our roof didn't need mending?"

You can well be in the room behind the granary, as one or two of the rafters need mending.

Did Mr. Hunter need mending?

Allow no one to persuade you to take old clothes to camp; they will soon need mending and prove a torment.

Along the windowless walls there were padded seats and plants made of silk that would never need watering, though they'd need mending from bullet holes.

But he had not an article in the world that needed mending.

Taking a costume that needs mending, she goes quietly out.

She should stitch the hem of that skirt that needed mending, for a start.

There was a chilliness about the atmosphere, as if the fire, too, needed mending.

Miss the bone-poor house and the broke-down barn and the fences that always needed mending.

Please bring down this evening something that needs mending.

Bored with sewing her one dress, she'd begun to take in clothes that needed mending or alterations.

There were buckled walls that needed mending.