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1564 J. Rastell Confut. Serm. M. Iuell f. 63^v By licentious vnderstanding of the Scriptures, and by cutting, hewing and pecing together of the veritie.

1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions iv. ii. 399 The peecing up of these domestique breaches betwixt husband and wife.

1653 W. Denny Pelecanicidium iii. xi. 257 Which is the nature of love..to inlarge all good offices for the piecing together, or continuing of Amity.

1730 J. Somers True Secret Hist. Lives & Reigns Kings & Queens Eng. (ed. 2) I. 330 So that all hands help'd to the piecing up this New Favourite.

1799 T. Reynolds in A. Antoninus Iter Britanniarum Pref. p. xi Had figures never been invented, we had been eased of a great deal of trouble, that piecing up of distances, and chronologies do now give us.

1836 J. Baillie Match i. iv. 407 The piecing up of all the rags and remnants of that poor garment, my patrimony.

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood xvi. 124 Whether his volunteering to tell these two fragments of truth..would not be tantamount to a piecing together of falsehood in the place of truth.

1926 P. Gardner New Chapters in Greek Art ii. 30 The piecing together was done with so little skill and conscientiousness that statues submitted to the process came out quite changed in character.

1996 T. Moore Re-enchantment Everyday Life 84 We..can simply see the journey into home as one that takes a lifetime of experiment and piecing together.