Or what if I am going to show these Patricians that--Poet of the People as I am--they can neither patronise nor cajole me?
He was just twenty years old when he first began to patronise the restaurant, now he is thirty-two, and Gustav has been a waiter for ten years in the same place.
One day Lady Kilrush, in her mixed mode, with partly the graces of a fine lady and partly the airs of a bel esprit, was talking of Mr. Devereux, whom she affected to patronise and produce.
Lady Geraldine now, with much energy of indignation, exclaimed against the pretensions of rich amateurs, and the mean and presumptuous manner in which some would-be great people affect to patronise genius.
By reason of these necessities the servility of the deputy in respect of these little groups which patronise him, and without which he would be no one, is absolute.
The single ladies I suppose universally ready to patronise my method, by which connubial wickedness may be detected, since no woman marries with a previous design to be unfaithful to her husband.
And forty thousand a year in any form can afford to patronise a daughter of a hundred dukes without a penny, whereas I'm merely the granddaughter of three.
Beginning with the manton--the long-fringed flowered shawl--half of these bailarinas of the Flamenco seem to patronise some special frenzied loom that supplies their class alone.
But when they would see beauty, they patronise its specialised exponent, the ballet.
No, it was quite impossible to patronise John Halifax.
It is enough for an ordinary sinner to patronise one confessional in a week, or a month, or a quarter of a year, and then go home and try to behave himself.
Fishergate Baptist Chapel has an excellent interior, and it will accommodate about twice as many people as patronise it.
It will be a considerable architectural relief to the building, and will be some guide to strangers and outer barbarians who may want to patronise it either for business purposes or piety.
We never saw such a time-worn and dumfounding road to any place, and if those who patronise it regularly had done their best to discover the essence of dinginess and intractibility, they could not have hit upon a better spot than this.
The Court, since the Revolution, had ceased to patronise licentiousness.
To collect books and antiques, to found professorships, to patronise men of learning, became almost universal fashions among the great.
It was from the time when he first began topatronise the Irish, that they may date their riches and prosperity.
It's wonderful how the poor people patronise me," said Mr. Bob Sawyer, reflectively.
To the artists belong the glory, but times were such that an artist must die of suppression if those in power refuse to patronise his art.
It was, perhaps, this very prosperity, this ability to stand alone that made Louis and Colbert think it worth while to patronise the works at Aubusson.
To patronise the busy town of her own domains, Arras, she ordered from there the hangings that were its specialty.
It was in the time of Charles V of France, that the Burgundian duke Philip, called the Hardy, began topatronise conspicuously the Arras factories.
Gerald's other friends were too stiff and grown up; Roland was nearer to her own age and he did not patronise her.
But time has advanced; I am now right, and they are wrong, and the cause which they patronise will not do them much credit.
The expense of musical soirees was very great, but custom made it a point of honour among the aristocracy to patronise the art which then surpassed all others in public estimation.
Nevertheless he continued to patronise Mozart, drew him out on every occasion, and if he had only been Elector of Cologne, Mozart would have been kapellmeister by this time, as he told his father.
At first, his encouragement was but slight; he found people more inclined to laugh at than to patronise him.
Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, found it necessary to republish the famous decree of excommunication and outlawry against the offenders; but, as the court itself had begun to patronise curls, the fulminations of the Church were unavailing.
One or two other medical men had tried rashly to set up to him in opposition at Bigton; but never getting anyone who was ill to patronise them, they had to give up at length in disgust.
If she was to be denied the pleasure, in future, of persecuting the new girl, there was no reason why she should not still patronise her.
Strange to say, when the fashionable Parisians ceased to patronise the omnibus, it went completely out of favour, as the poorer class declined to travel in it.
Royalty and some of the leading aristocrats alone patronise coaches.
Supplementary to the coaching there was the system of "posting," favoured by those who did not care to patronise public vehicles, and could afford the luxury of independent travel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patronise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
