Every day for at least ten years together did my father resolve to have it mended--'tis not mended yet; --no family but ours would have borne with it an hour----and what is most astonishing, there was not a subject in the world upon which my father was so eloquent, as upon that of door-hinges. 
Every day for at least ten years my father resolved to have it mended - 'tis not mended yet; no other family would have borne with it an hour - and what is most astonishing, there was not a subject in the world upon which my father was so eloquent, as that of door-hinges. 