"Patchy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... see what the new field near Cape Grenville was like. I hear that it is very patchy, but any amount of rich pockets. And as Black Bluff Creek is on my way, I thought I would pay Fraser a visit, and see how he is doing. ...
— Tom Gerrard - 1904 • Louis Becke
... the excursion was worth while, and they found a great amazement in the lavish beauty and decorative wealth of that vast church and its associated cloisters, set far away from any population as it seemed in a flat wilderness of reedy ditches and patchy cultivation. The distilleries and outbuildings were deserted—their white walls were covered by one monstrously great and old wisteria in flower—the soaring marvellous church was in possession of a ...
— The Research Magnificent • H. G. Wells
... clever little plotter in the bed. "There never was such a bat—never in the world—and I don't believe there ever could be again. He didn't play on smooth wickets, as they do now. He played where the wickets were all patchy, and you had to watch the ball right on to the bat. You couldn't look at it before it hit the ground and think, 'That's all right. I know where that one will be!' My word, that was cricket. What you got ...
— Danger! and Other Stories • Arthur Conan Doyle
... life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, ...
— Robert Browning • G. K. Chesterton
... in the direction he thought the would-be assassin must have taken, but the fog was patchy and he misjudged. He heard the sound of hurrying footsteps and ran towards them, only to find that it was a policeman attracted by the ...
— The Daffodil Mystery • Edgar Wallace
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