bepatched

They seemed clad in the skins of beasts, so torn and bepatched the raiment that had survived nearly four years of cruising.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

If the absolutely pure, un - calculating, unpractical spirit of adventure had ever ruled a human being, it ruled this bepatched youth.

Heart of Darkness 1960

It was long and low -- in reality, the old dancing-hall, for the manor had been built after the pattern of its first owner's English home; and in the deep, recessed windows, facing the lake, many a bepatched and powdered little belle of Colonial days had coquetted across her fan with her bravely-clad partner.

The S. W. F. Club Caroline E. Jacobs

The man offered Bill a pair of faded blue overalls and a much-bepatched shirt of blue flannel, and when Jeanne emerged, clad in the best dress of her hostess, Bill took his turn in the dressing-room.

The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

If the absolutely pure, uncalculating, unpractical spirit of adventure had ever ruled a human being, it ruled this bepatched youth.

Heart of Darkness 1902

If the absolutely pure, uncalculating, unpractical spirit of adventure had ever ruled a human being, it ruled this bepatched youth.

Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1890

His rear was so marvelously bepatched with colored squares and triangles that one was half persuaded he had got it out of an atlas.

Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion Mark Twain 1872

All bepatched and coiled asleep in his lonely lava den among the mountains, he looked, they say, as a heaped drift of withered leaves, torn from autumn trees, and so left in some hidden nook by the whirling halt for an instant of a fierce night-wind, which then ruthlessly sweeps on, somewhere else to repeat the capricious act.

The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855

Perseverance '-- for that was her name -- was spoken somewhere in the vicinity of the ends of the earth, cruising along as leisurely as ever, her sails all bepatched and be quilted with rope-yarns, her spars fished with old pipe staves, and her rigging knotted and spliced in every possible direction.

Typee Herman Melville 1855

Sovran bade summon the Headsman and committed to him the criminal bidding him take the youth and robe him in a black habit bepatched with flamecolour; [FN#121] then, to set him upon a camel and, after parading him through Cairo city and all the streets, to put him to death.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855