"You're a right good gal," she opined patronizingly, "but foolish.

" "What is it you don't understand, John?" inquired Miss Lydia patronizingly.

" "I will when I can," said Laurella, patronizingly.

Otherwise these things will be done badly, or patronizingly, or not at all.

I rather doubted this speech; but I said nothing, and he went on, patronizingly: "However, Joe, thou hast reason, as the French say.

Ada smiled patronizingly.

" "Yes, Frank," said her mother patronizingly, "I think we had better be going.

" "Spiller's, sir," said Psmith, laying a hand patronizingly on the study-claimer's shouldera proceeding violently resented by Spiller"is a character one cannot help but respect.

"Good-day, widow," said the squire patronizingly.

"Do you mean to say that if father won't do what the other Senators want him to do they will combine against him and destroy his usefulness, make him powerlessa failure?" The Congressman smiled patronizingly on the youth.

"That's my point," cried the Mississippian"let us teach Washington to care about them!" "Langdon, Langdon," said Peabody, patronizingly, "you've seized on a bigger task than you know.

"There, there," said Steinert, patronizingly; "coons has more genteel home life in jail than they does out.

What will you dowhat can you do?" "The boss of the Senate" smiled patronizingly on the senior Senator from Mississippi, as though amused and scornful of his limitations as a strategist, as a tenacious fighter.

Joel kissed his mother fondly, patted his father patronizingly but affectionately on the back, and asked fifty questions in as many minutes.

Coming to our own times, one must quarrel with Ruskin as taking rather the artist's view of Nature, selecting the available bits and dealing rather patronizingly with the whole; and one is tempted to charge even Emerson, as he somewhere charges Wordsworth, with not being of a temperament quite liquid and musical enough to admit the full vibration of the great harmonics.

With the former she is deliciously patronizingly friendly; they are all "me dears," and they talk about their servants and ailments and babies, mixed with the doings of Lady Tilchesterthey always speak of her as the "Marchioness of Tilchester."

After all, he was here incognito talking to his girlhe felt like winking patronizingly at the world.

She always managed cleverly at this point by saying, patronizingly: "Why, how you talk, Mrs. Finnegan!

While my charge against my assailant is essentially moral, and I cannot make any parade of charity, he can speak patronizingly of me now and then, and makes his main attacks on my logic and metaphysics.

" "I don't know that it's so bad myself," patronizingly admitted Bill; "but what connection has that with your scheme for getting money, Jack?" "A whole lot," replied the bully.

"Don't you worry, sonny," put in Merritt patronizingly.

" "So you have, my dear Bog; and your faith has often cheered me," replied the inventor, patronizingly.

You forget," said the coroner, patronizingly, "that courts of justice doesn't know nothin' until it's proved to them.

and patronizingly exclaims, "Sensible King!"

At Rouen I stayed to dine and sleep, and so made my way to the Cheval Blanc, a grand hotel on the quay, where I was received by an aristocratic elderly waiter who sauntered out from a side office, surveyed me patronizingly, entered my name upon a card for a seat at the table d'hote, and, having rung a feeble little bell, sank exhausted upon a seat in the hall.