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The wedding was held under the oak, with Father Darn- ley, an old man now, officiating in half-drunken jollity.

"It's like 'Darn, we won!' "

An' I had to give a good Ford--a DARN' good Ford!

'They Don't Give a Darn' "I'm not against the officer personally," Mr. Shute said in an interview.

He is sometimes credited as Don Hart (a play on 'Darn Hard'), Don Horner, "Dan Sir", or Johnny Wilson.

Well, he too was sitting in a special prison one Sunday, darning his socks.

"The lady who's been darning my socks told me about it.

Perhaps it was more like darning the worn heel of a sock.

"I suppose you are the only woman in London who darns her own stockings," he observed.

She sat staring down at the socks that she was darning.

Before he could answer, she asked, "Aren't you the one who sticks darning needles into people?"

Torn cheeks have been stitched together as if by darning needles.

She was the kind of woman who'd sit there and smolder while darning her grandfather's socks.

Instead, she darns socks and does dressmaking for local families to earn a bit.

"I'm sure she wouldn't mind darning even my stockings," he said.

In the end she merely bought a packet of darning needles and some red thread.

If you expect me for ever to be stitching stocks and darning stockings, then the answer is no.

He was standing with his back to the door, and she was sitting in her chair, darning a child's garment.

Aunt Gertrude planted herself in an easy chair and began darning socks.

When he came back in the evening he found her seated at the window, darning his socks.

The dean's wife finished darning the towels and went up to say good-night to her parents.

In his world everything is alive, from peas to darning needles to shirt collars.

Rivka looked up from the sock she was darning.

It is a hangover from those long gone days when it was actually used for darning socks!

Then I'll show you about darning the tablecloths.

Just like darning a sock in a hurry.

A good-looking girl, with a stocking she was darning drawn over one hand and arm, followed her mother into the shop.

Faculty members, it turned out, were happy to let her keep darning their socks but not to give her an advanced degree.

The boy's hair was wet as if it'd just been washed, and the wench appeared to be darning one of his socks.

Both women were engaged in darning linen sheets.