He patronizes you a trifle; his wife, you see, has told him all about that boy who is as dead as Hannibal.

The housekeeper patronizes her.

He has no true admiration for intellectual excellence, although he patronizes literary lions.

which even now pays and patronizes a Board of Agriculture to undermine all landed property by a succession of false, shallow, and inflammatory libels against tithes.

He is neither shy himself, nor patronizes it in others.

Our manufactures find a generous encouragement by the policy which patronizes domestic industry, and the surplus of our produce a steady and profitable market by local wants in less-favored parts at home.

I place no confidence in them, but they may take a fit into their heads to patronize the fine arts, and, in that case, they have it in their power undoubtedly to do as much as any city in this country towards their support.

He patronizes men of letters out of vanity, and deserts them from caprice, or from the advice of friends.

Sure, a'n't I the man that patronizes your Melodies?'

It is too early in our history, perhaps, to patronize them as a general thing.

Much feeling had been created in the city by the announcement that Washington people did not intend to patronize the affair, and it was feared that it might fall through.

Peeling sorry at having to get rid of such good horses, and anxious to give another blow to the mistaken theory that unnerved animals were unsafe, I obtained the consent of my commanding officer, who patronizes practical conclusions, to perform neurotomy.

I was delighted to find that the Canadians had sufficient good sense to patronize first and second class carriages; and, also, that they have begun to make their own carriages and locomotives.

She believes there is something pretty and good in music, and patronizes it accordingly to the best of her ability.

A good fellow is one who talks loud and swears louder; cares little about learning, and less about his neckcloth; loves whiskey, patronizes bargemen, and wears nails in his shoes.

Many of this class practise this double employment, and the economical traveller, who looks more to comfort than luxury, will not fail to patronize them.

CARNAN, Thomas, bookseller, iii. 100, n. 1. CAROLINE, QUEEN, Clarke's refusal of a bishopric, iii. 248, n. 2; Leibnitz, patronizes, v. 287; Savage, bounty to, i. 125, n. 4, 173, n. 3. CARPENTER, anecdote of a, iv.

Were you to study medicine, I should advise you to take up surgery, osteopathy, electricity, the Kneippe Cure, milk diet, and all the various methods of stimulating circulation; for the people who patronize these treatments are increasing, as the powder and pill patrons are on the decrease.

Did you never feel snubbed by an immense dog you had tried to patronize?

A Man of this Temper, when he is in a Post of Business, becomes a Blessing to the Publick: He patronizes the Orphan and the Widow, assists the Friendless, and guides the Ignorant: He does not reject the Person's Pretensions, who does not know how to explain them, or refuse doing a good Office for a Man because he cannot pay the Fee of it.

Going to church does not help them, for it must be an exclusive church and an exclusive pew, under an exclusive pastor who patronizes Jesus Christ but does not sympathize with Him, and who talks about the "dregs of society" as if it were something far removed from the knowledge and consciousness of his hearers.

Each of the clergymen graciously informed Tiffles, on delivering up his family ticket, that a panorama was one of the few secular entertainments that he could consent to patronize.

Not only the class who likes to waste conspicuously, but many a teacher, many a young man in State or Government employ with an income of one, two, or three thousand a year patronizes these rooms.

Imitating the condescension of some contemporary philosophers of the Infinite, he graciously accepts Christianity and patronizes the idea of Deity, though he gives you to understand that he could easily pitch a generalization outside of both.

What she wears is prettily arranged, well made and well put on, and the effect is both pleasing and refreshing, and people inquire what house in Paris she patronizes.