With which he minced off, dusting his nose with his lace handkerchief, and I'm damned if I see the joke yet in spelling patroon with an o for the a and an ell for good measure!
Third, those of Dutch blood, descended from brave ancestors, like our worthypatroon here.
The patroon was waiting for us when we came to the weather-beaten finger-post: "FONDA'S BUSH 4 MILES.
When the patroon named me to him he turned his lack-lustre eyes on me and offered me a large, damp hand.
The plea of the patroon for neutrality in the war now sweeping towards the Mohawk Valley I had heard before.
Sir George sauntered forth from the doorway where he had been standing, and begged us to dismount, but the patroon declined, saying that we had far to ride ere sundown, and that one of us should go around by Broadalbin.
So I closed the door of the gun-room on the great patroon and walked to the foot of the stairway.
The patroonwill see that you have ample protection.
Presently the patroon raised his eyes and looked at Colonel John Butler.
Good people," said Dorothy, quietly, "the patroon sends you word of a strange smoke seen this day in the hills.
That this Sir George Covert should call the patroon a poltroon hurt me, for he was kin to us both; yet it seemed that there might be truth in the insolent fling, for selfishness and poltroonery are too often linked.
There was the boat, to be sure, and here was Catriona ready: but both our master and the patroon of the boat scrupled at the risk, and the first was in no humour to delay.
I stood up on the other side and spread my arms; the ship swung down on us, the patroon humoured his boat nearer in than was perhaps wholly safe, and Catriona leaped into the air.
It is the oldest of the Patroon manor houses, built in 1640 or thereabouts.
The old mansion, on the hillside, above the landing, was built before 1700 by William Beekman, first patroon of this section.
In the beginning the patroon built houses and barns and furnished cattle, seed and tools.
Many of the old patroon estates long remained undivided, and the heirs of the founders claimed some semi-feudal privileges well into the nineteenth century.
The company retained intervening lands; but no one might settle within thirty miles of a patroon colony without consent of the patroon, subject to the order of the company's officials.
He thus became a Patroon of Staten Island, and subsequently a few others obtained the same honor and privileges.
The combatants paused for a moment, gazing in mute astonishment, until the wind, dispelling the murky cloud, revealed the flaunting banner of Michael Paw, the Patroon of Communipaw.
Some one must own the mill-seats; and why not the Patroon as well as another?
The Patroon had quarter sales on many of his farms--those that were let in the last century.
A patroon is a nobleman who owns another man's land; and an aristocrat is a body that thinks himself better than his neighbours, friend.
I should like to see any patroon ask sich a thing!
The patroon system was from the beginning doomed to failure.
In 1643 the patroon ordered Nicholas Coorn to fortify Beeren or Bears Island, and to demand a toll of each ship, except those of the West India Company, that passed up and down the river.
I suspect, however, that the evening hours of these tenants at Rensselaerswyck were spent in anxious keeping of accounts with a wholesome fear of the patroon before the eyes of the accountants.
It was the difficult task of the agent of the colony to harmonize the constant hostilities between the patroon and his "people.
On the other hand all domestic produce was cheap, because the tenant and patroon preferred to dispose of it in the settlements rather than by transporting it to New Amsterdam.
How hard were the terms on which the tenants held their leases is apparent from a report written by the guardians and tutors of Jan Van Rensselaer, a later patroon of Rensselaerswyck.
Everything they have laid out on account of the Lord Patroon they well know how to specify for what was expended.
Van Laer (1908) show us through his personal letters the Patroonof the upper Hudson and make us familiar with life on his estates.
The patroonhad directed that they be furnished with clothing "in such small and compact parcels as can be properly stowed away on the ship.
The farmers and servants on these plantations looked upon the patroon as being much above them in authority and social position.
Each patroon was to govern the people on his own land.
And, as it does not concern the inhabitants what instructions or orders the patroon gives to his chief agent, the charge is made for the purpose of making trouble.
My Patroon had a present made him of this water, with which he was not a little pleased, and gave him that brought it a good reward.
My patroon had his silk handkerchief stole out of his bosom, while he stood at his devotion here.
Some of my neighbours who intended for Mecca, the same year I went with my patroon thither, offered [p.
Why couldn't the patroon have remained content with his bottle?
Why, the old patroon didn't wear none at all, and corduroy was good enough for him, they say.
Which epistle the patroon addressed to his legal satellite and despatched by messenger.
He looked away, but the patroon never took his eyes from her until she had vanished.
Moreover, she was an actress, and the patroon was madly in love with her.
The jackal saw the patroon spring into the carriage, having fastened his horse behind, and drive off.
After impatiently riding an hour or more through this delectable region, the horseman drew near the patroon village, a cluster of houses amid the hills and meadows.
The old patroon ordered the schout to arrest them if they entered the wyck.
It's the first time ever patroon was a spendthrift!
He should then have military honors paid him on his marriage," observed Lady Dorinda, to whom patroon suggested the barbarous but splendid vision of a western pasha.
These great patroon estates were confirmed by the English governors, who in their turn followed a similar policy.
From the time of the patroon grants along the lower Hudson, great estates had been the common form of land tenure.
Even in New York, where through the patroon system semi-feudal institutions very much like those of aristocratic England had begun, the innate love of liberty in the people ultimately broke through these as a seed through its shell.
Finding men like-minded with himself, who believed that the patroon or manor-system was a bad reversion in political evolution, he led out the Dutch freemen, and founded the city of Schenectady.
The young Patroon arose, and answered the salutation by a courteous bow.
The Patroon turned aside, as he heard a man so Known for his worldliness yielding to the power of nature; and the lord of a hundred thousand acres forgot his own disappointment, in the force of sympathy.
The Patroon is no Cupid, we must allow; or, in a week at sea, he would have won the heart of a mermaid!
During the time past in the secret conference of the cabin, Ludlow and the Patroon were held in discourse on the quarter-deck, by the hero of the India-shawl.
The wooing of the youngPatroon of Kinderhook is an affair of concern to the province.
As for thePatroon of Kinderhook, the present day was one of rare and unequalled pleasure.
Oloff Van Staats, or the Patroon of Kinderhook, as, by the courtesy of the colony, he was commonly termed, did not want for personal firmness.
I hope my friend the young Patroon has slept sound as yourself, and that he has shown his face already, to prove it.
The Patroon was altogether of the sluggish cast; and to him there was consequently a secret, but deep pleasure, in his present situation.
And now that we are of the same mind in the preliminaries, we will seek the Patroon of Kinderhook, who has a claim to participate in our confidence.
Ludlow, turning his look on the Patroon of Kinderhook.
In New York settlement was retarded by the practice of land leasing instead of sales, a relic of the patroon system.
A type of feudalism known as the patroon system was decided upon.
The colonists were exempt from taxation for ten years, but they could not leave the service of the patroon without his consent.
There was the boat, to be sure, and there was Catriona ready: but both our master and the patroon of the boat scrupled at the risk, and the first was in no humour to delay.
Floyd, Ordway and Pryor shall untill further orders form the crew of the Batteaux; the Mess of the Patroon La Jeunesse will form the permanent crew of the red Perogue; Corpl.
And now, my girl, you may take your choice; go to Albany and sit snug with the Patroon until this tempest breaks and blows over, or go to Johnstown Fort with me.
But presently there came a polite letter in reply, writ kindly to her by the young Patroon himself, who very delicately revealed how it was with Mr. Fonda.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patroon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
