patches

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Examples

The sky was horribly dark, but one could distinctly see tattered clouds, and between them fathomless black patches. Suddenly I noticed in one of these patches a star, and began watching it intently. That was because that star had given me an idea: I decided to kill myself that night. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches. T. E. Hulme

Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms and little wildflowers. Roberto Bolaño

It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: "With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe." Sigmund Freud

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. Charles Caleb Colton

When the poor man patches himself up, he seems newly dressed. Sicilian Proverb