Significados de patch clothes en inglés

I saw most of the people had patched clothes and worn-looking clogs.

He said you were a young swell for all your patched clothes.

That evening their cleaned and patched clothes were returned to them.

His bent old figure was huddled within his carefully patched clothes of coarse brown homespun.

His fingers itched to capture this image, the Cinderella girl with her patched clothes and her Midas heart.

The ideas of some people cannot get below nicely- patched clothes, carefully brushed boots, clean collars, and neatly arranged hair.

But under these patched clothes you can make out a sturdy little figure; and, besides, what matters the clothes?

Valentine has patched clothes and collapsing underwear, and for all their shared ambition of frugality she finds it hard going.

'I would not mind wearing patched clothes and having only bread and milk for supper.'

It was this: he himself-Marco ,withthe strong boy-body, the thick mat of black hair, and the patched clothes-wasthe magician.

There came abreast of him a man in old patched clothes much travel-stained, limping and walking with the aid of a staff.

"Some old clothes maybe you want," remarked the servant again, eying the boy's patched clothes.

On winter nights, she would sit in her rocking chair, patching clothes or spinning yarn and talking about the lives of the saints.

Those years were not altogether happy ones, for Johnson's huge ungainly figure, and shabby, patched clothes were matters for laughter among his fellow- students.

His coarse, patched clothes cut like the homely garments of the simple people of the day, were not wholly out of keeping to the part.

Yet despite his unquestioned authority, Umar remained a deeply humble and austere man, wearing patched clothes and sleeping on the floor in his tiny hut.