Birmingham and Bolton are both after the scuttling cross-patch bald full-back Paul Konchesky. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Allusion here functions as a sort of shorthand cross-patch into a series of metaphoric events which, with ❋ Robert Hunter (1996)
Paddy had had a tormenting day with his sister, at her beck and call in a way Fee never demanded, helping her pick her fastidious, cross-patch way through the Gilly mud in imported guipure lace shoes, smiling and chatting with the people she greeted royally, standing by her side as she presented the emerald bracelet to the winner of the principal race, the Gillanbone Trophy. ❋ McCullough, Colleen (1977)
"Yes, indeed," answered the little girl with a toss of her head, and speaking in a loud voice so that the maid might hear her; "Miss Kerr always does what I ask her to do, but Sophie is a regular cross-patch." ❋ Clara Mulholland (N/A)
"_You'd_ better walk, too, cross-patch, and learn a few manners from your friends," was David's parting advice to his sister. ❋ Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower (N/A)
I do not know just what had befallen if love had failed me, for as far back as I can remember love has been to me the bedrock of all that is worth living for, striving for or possessing in this cross-patch of a world of ours. ❋ Unknown (1921)
"Don't worry about the soft-job brigade, old cross-patch," advised ❋ Henri Barbusse (1904)
"Good-bye," and they went on feeling far more gently disposed toward their cross-patch neighbors than they ever had before. ❋ Unknown (1903)
The owl, which lured the crows and other birds of prey, was fastened on a perch, and when they flew up, often in large flocks, to tease the old cross-patch which sat blinking angrily, they were shot down from loop-holes which had been left in the hut. ❋ Ebers, Georg, 1837-1898 (1892)
She was an old cross-patch, of course, they told him, or else she would not live alone on the edge of a forest, with nobody but a cat and owls for company. ❋ Clara Louise Burnham (1890)
Their vessel was a small English coaster, in command of a stubborn cross-patch of a captain, who combined navigation with theology, and whose violent protestations and fondness for doctrinal dispute allowed his Catholic passengers, during the fifteen days of their passage, scarcely a minute's peace. ❋ William Henry Hudson (1890)
"You are a cross-patch," exclaimed Nan in her most spoilt tone. ❋ L. T. Meade (1884)
They were so stirred up by the race that they could not settle to their former quiet, and a lively game of Blindman's Buff followed, in which Tommy showed that he had taken the moral of the last story to heart, for, when he caught Nan, he whispered in her ear, "I'm sorry I called you a cross-patch." ❋ Unknown (1871)
"You'd better tell about a naughty cross-patch of a girl," said Tommy, whose evening had been spoilt by Nan's unkindness. ❋ Unknown (1871)
[Illustration: Line drawing of Berry Patch book cover] _The Berry family home was called the Berry Patch because of the "cross-patch" dispositions of the children, but, at heart, they all wanted to be right, and so the clash of experiences at last brought good results. ❋ Hector Malot (1868)
"I once knew a little boy who said to his cousin, 'Oh, I hope your mamma will let you come again on Saturday;' and then, when his cousin was out of hearing, he turned and said, 'I hope he won't get leave to come, he's such a cross-patch.'" ❋ George Cupples (1868)
