A sort of respect underlay all his patronising good-nature or caprices with her.

" "When you have had as much experience in investigating crime as I have, you won't worry over little points that at first don't seem to fit in with what we know to be facts," responded the inspector in a patronising tone.

"Sixty-two will prove a decent quiet resort which I may not be above patronising myself.

Lanyard remarked, however, that neither ventured to assume proprietorial airs; while Liane's attitude toward them was generally indulgent, if occasionally patronising and sometimes impatient.

"No, no," laughed the General, with a cackle, and a patronising hand upheld against the mere thought.

Lord Minchampstead had many reasons for patronising Lancelot.

She spoke in the simplicity of her heart, but he chose to think she was patronising himshe had not talked commonplaces to the vicar.

Was Argemone patronising him?

" Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was accordingly placed in his hands; Mr Dallas took it home, and was not slow in discovering its beauties, for in the course of the same evening he despatched a note to his Lordship, as fair a specimen of the style of an elderly patronising gentleman as can well be imagined: "You have written," said he, "one of the most delightful poems I ever read.

" "They do Plato the honour of patronising him, as a Representative Man; but their real text-book, you will find, is Proclus.

He was not, like his father, a Roman aristocrat patronising Greek culture; in him we see a perfectly natural and mature combination of the noblest qualities of the Roman and the wholesomest qualities of the Greek.

Even in a letter to Cicero, an old friend, though not actually rude, he is absurdly patronising and impertinent to a man many years his senior, and writes in very bad taste.

Finally, to demonstrate to the world, that justice among slaveholders is consistent with itself; that authorizing man-stealing and patronising robbery, it will, of course, be the patron and associate of murder also, the judge who sat upon the case, and the murderer who was on trial for his life before him, were boon-companions together, eating and drinking at the same table throughout the trial.

Finally, to demonstrate to the world, that justice among slaveholders is consistent with itself; that authorizing man-stealing and patronising robbery, it will, of course, be the patron and associate of murder also, the judge who sat upon the case, and the murderer who was on trial for his life before him, were boon-companions together, eating and drinking at the same table throughout the trial.

It surprised and amused you, that grip, as does a baby's unexpected clutch on your patronising forefinger.

I'm sorry if this view offends anyone, but the small-town mentality, the self-serious posturing and the patronising editorialisation of news reports were all too obvious in both the NT and Herald.

"No, no, sir," he said to "Old Thomas," with quite the patronising air of an equal, "we never take money of one another!" Betterton did not see the matter in the same light, and, indignantly throwing down the silver, stalked into the booth without so much as thanking the proprietor of the puppets.

"I'll do my best for you, Tulliver," Mr. Nowell replied, in a patronising tone.

173; increase of it breaks down subordination, iii. 262; increase of it in one nation impoverishes another, ii. 430; influence, gives, v. 112; influence of loans, ii. 167; iv. 222; influence by patronising young men, ii. 167; 'insolence of wealth,' iii. 316; interest, iii. 340; investments, iv.

Should she, however, submit to his extortionate requests, he will deem himself entitled to embitter the rest of her existence with his patronising commendation.

Montagu hung back lest he should seem to be patronising a fallen enemy, and Eric lest he should have sinned too deeply to be forgiven.

Wildney was walking with his cousin, a beautiful girl, some four years older than himself, whom he was evidently patronising immensely.

She was laughing and talking eagerly, and by and by ran up to Bessie, exclaiming in a patronising tone 'Oh!

Bessie rejoiced that none of her own people were near to see the patronising manner in which Arthurine introduced her to Mr. Foxholm, a heavily-bearded man, whose eyes she did not at all like, and who began by telling her that he felt as if he had crossed the Rubicon, and entering an Arcadia, had found a Parnassus.

The general tone is that of faintly amused and patronising superiority.