lay a patch

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I wanted to grab the wheel and lay a patch.

From Time Magazine Archive

No glacier was visible now, however—only, on the rocky summit lay a patch or two of the last winter’s snow-drift, which was too deep for the summer sun to melt away.

From The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Then Ace gave a shout, for down a hollow between two ridges to the north lay a patch of snow.

From Unexplored! by Chaffee, Allen

Before him lay a patch of gray-green bay, flanked on either side by wharves upon which two black-hulled lumber schooners were disgorging their resinous cargo.

From Broken to the Plow by Dobie, Charles Caldwell

Slowly the Flying Fish forged ahead till right under her bow lay a patch of the yellow water.

From The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol by Goldfrap, John Henry