Which preposition to use with patrons

of Occurrences 506%

It is sufficient for me to have reminded you of a truth, which I am confident we all equally feel, that, while we justly consider ourselves as students in the extensive school of Humanity, it becomes us to look up to HOWARD, with a laudable veneration, as the Prince and Patron of our Order.

in Occurrences 31%

He was then almost incessantly engaged in travelling for his patron in Greece and Asia Minor, and was too valuable a coadjutor to be tied down to the routine of teaching until he had completed his work.

for Occurrences 19%

Nature gives her children the one, and the producer charges his patrons for the other.

of Occurrences 15%

I must confess I do not naturally affect critical Learning; but finding my self not so much regarded as I am apt to flatter my self I may deserve from some professed Patrons of Learning, I could not but do my self the Justice to shew I am not a Stranger to such Erudition as they smile upon, if I were duly encouraged.

to Occurrences 15%

His father, John Lamb, the "Lovel" of the essay cited, had come up a little boy from Lincolnshire to enter the service of Samuel Salt,one of those "Old Benchers" upon whom the pen of Elia has shed immortality, a stanch friend and patron to the Lambs, the kind proprietor of that "spacious closet of good old English reading" upon whose "fair and wholesome pasturage" Charles and his sister, as children, "browsed at will.

with Occurrences 13%

Again, in the matter of Caesar, he was first associated with him as quaestor, when Caesar was praetor in Spain, next attached himself to him during the tribuneship, contrary to the liking of us all, and later received from him countless money and excessive honors: in return for this he tried to inspire his patron with a desire for supremacy, which led to talk against him and was more than anything else responsible for Caesar's death.

by Occurrences 8%

They operate the same in their effect on the contest for the world's pennant and in causing confusion among the patrons by disarranging the schedule.

as Occurrences 7%

He could make people, even people like these two and whom there were still other people to envy, he could make them push and snatch and scramble like thatand then remain as incapable of taking her from the hands of such patrons as of receiving her straight, say, from those of Mrs. Drack.

from Occurrences 7%

You have to protect your patrons from insult.

at Occurrences 4%

So they were married under the name of Pintal, bestowed upon his favorite English clerk by the adventurous first patron at Carthagena, who had found the boy provided with only a 'purser's name,' as sailors term it.

on Occurrences 4%

There are, as we have said, various versions of this story, but all tend to show that Brummell courted the notice of his late master and patron on his way through the place of his exile; and it is not remarkable in a man who borrowed so freely from all his acquaintances, and who was, in fact, in such a state of dependence on their liberality.

than Occurrences 4%

The main Art is to be as little troublesome as you can, and make all you hope for come rather as a Favour from your Patron than Claim from you.

towards Occurrences 3%

He was a great cherisher of wit and fancy, and good parts in any man; and if he found them clouded with poverty and want, a most liberal and bountiful patron towards them, even above his fortune."

into Occurrences 3%

With need of less skill than the elevator operator, but more patience and tact in managing human nature, the woman conductor is getting her patrons into line.

against Occurrences 2%

For this malicious man going hastily up to London, to exasperate my patron against me, was then and there swept away by the pestilence, and never returned to do any further mischief."

like Occurrences 1%

If you are JOHN SMITH and own a coal mine or an iron mill, you go to Washington, see your Congressman, (by see I mean look at him, of course,) donate large sums of money to certain poor, but honest men, who adorn the lobby of the House, while they are waiting for generous patrons like unto you, then go home and calmly await the result.

among Occurrences 1%

Thus the lesser gentry and the intelligentsia all lived on their patrons among the greater gentrywith the result that they were entirely shut out of politics.

between Occurrences 1%

A manoeuvring and managing individual, entirely unscrupulous in his choice of means, condescending to flattery and lies, he strove to stand as patron between the Pope and subordinate craftsmen.

about Occurrences 1%

But it seems he prated to his patron about the fair young lady he had hoped should share his preferment, lamenting her silliness in preferring a moonstruck Quaker youth; also he complained of Mrs. Golding for not discouraging such follies, and he even deplored Mr. Truelocke's obstinate heresies as to church discipline.

out Occurrences 1%

His father was dead, his pension withdrawn, his political patrons out of power, and his literary fame not yet fully established.

under Occurrences 1%

This most odious of railroad vices, rarely practised openly, is done by false billing of weight, by wrong descriptions or false classification to reduce the charge below published rate-sheets, by carrying some goods free, by issuing passes to some and not to all patrons under the same conditions, or by donations or rebates after the regular rate has been paid.

within Occurrences 1%

Now and then it halted to take up a passenger or a parcel; and on these occasions Boutigo produced a couple of big stones from his hip-pockets and slipped them under the hind-wheels, while we, his patrons within the van, tilted at an angle of 15° upon cushions of American cloth, sought for new centres of gravity, and earnestly desired the summit.

Which preposition to use with  patrons