No man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat: or the new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.

And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken bits and of the fishes.

But she said to him in answer, Yes, Lord: even the dogs under the table take the bits dropped by the children.

And they took the food, and had enough; and they took up seven baskets full of the broken bits.

When I made a division of the five cakes of bread among the five thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? They said to him, Twelve.

And when the seven among the four thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? And they said to him, Seven.

And there came a poor widow, and she put in two little bits of money, which make a farthing.