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  • His sexuality was anything but lewd; his patronage of little girls smacked of innocence and was associated in his mind with cleanliness.†   (source)
  • What was more, without Nobu's patronage, I was no longer invited to Iwamura Electric's parties, which meant I hardly stood any chance at all of seeing the Chairman.†   (source)
  • If his look had contained contempt or patronage, or any of the vulgar emotions revealed by adults in confrontation with children, I would have easily gone back to my book, but his eyes gave off a watery nothing—a nothingness which was completely unbearable.†   (source)
  • Murtagh, however, has denounced his father's deeds and fled Galbatorix's patronage to seek his own destiny.†   (source)
  • Thank you again for your patronage.†   (source)
  • Miss Sessions had smiled upon the piteous little group with a judicious mixture of patronage and mild reproof, and her driver had shaken the lines over the backs of the fat horses preparatory to moving on, when Stoddard's car turned into the street from the corner above.†   (source)
  • I could speak to Inspector Supervisor Skaaiat as though she were not in any way connected with Lieutenant Awn, as though Lieutenant Awn had had no anxieties or hopes or fears about future patronage from her.†   (source)
  • So, too, did the immense patronage and public money that were his alone to dispense.†   (source)
  • Pure political patronage.†   (source)
  • She told him that in the Renaissance the most famous dukes were known for their aesthetic taste and patronage of the arts, and this idea appealed to him.†   (source)
  • There were perhaps a few thousand residents, mostly shopkeepers and service people, and the small bedroom community who were their patronage.†   (source)
  • They, however, which is to say the owner's daughter, who was at the desk when Alessandro departed, had no need of his patronage.†   (source)
  • PLAYER: For some of us it is performance, for others, patronage.†   (source)
  • Leery of strong Protestant leanings in the Bohemian branch of the family, the Emperor, Rudolph II, had for a time withdrawn his patronage.†   (source)
  • Under Hedwig's patronage they seemed to have lost all fear of the future, and appeared to Sophie perfectly good-humored and composed as they stitched away in a second-floor sunroom, peeling off labels and markers stamped Cohen and Lowenstein and Adamowitz from expensive furs and fabric freshly cleaned and only hours removed from the boxcars.†   (source)
  • The patronage, in fact, was all on his side.†   (source)
  • He took steps to get him a good position in a hospital, with plenty of opportunity for going on with his research, and assisted him by his patronage.†   (source)
  • The fact that he alone disdained patronage, petty Congressional graft and favors from lobbyists may have disturbed the politicians, but not the people of Missouri!†   (source)
  • He was beginning to simmer with rage, although he knew quite well that they themselves were quite unconscious of the patronage implicit in their manner, and that it would be better for him to try and understand the real meaning of this scene, rather than to stand on his dignity.†   (source)
  • What would I put up with if I could win a powerful noble's patronage?†   (source)
  • It was more like feudalism than patronage, but top artists lived well and seldom complained.†   (source)
  • He himself, he insisted, had no say on patronage.†   (source)
  • Even the wigmaker, and the shop where hair ornaments are sold, and the sweets shop where the apprentice geisha will buy gifts for her patrons from time to time …. they may never directly receive a portion of the girl's fees; but certainly they all benefit by the patronage of yet another successful geisha, who can bring customers into Gion to spend money.†   (source)
  • He merely assured Inspector Thomas Mathew that as far as he was concerned Velutha did not have the patronage or the protection of the Communist Parry.†   (source)
  • …up your heads," Robert Winthrop told the crowd many years ago at the unveiling of a statue of that great hero of American independence Benjamin Franklin, "and look at the image of a man who rose from nothing, who owed nothing to parentage or patronage, who enjoyed no advantages of early education which are not open, a hundredfold open, to yourselves, who performed the most menial services in the businesses in which his early life was employed, but who lived to stand before Kings, and…†   (source)
  • In Bernini's day, everything an artist created while under the patronage of the Pope became, by law, property of the Vatican.†   (source)
  • Neither was he counted one of the queen's men, that group of ambitious knights and minor lordlings who had given themselves to this Lord of Light and so won the favor and patronage of Lady—no, Queen, remember?†   (source)
  • "I may say to you that his patronage of Paine and Freneau and his entanglements with characters and politics which have been pernicious are and have been a source of inquietude and anxiety to me," Adams confided to Tristram Dalton.†   (source)
  • If there was a little savor of patronage in the generous hospitality she exercised among her simple neighbors, it was never regarded as more than a natural emphasis of her undoubted claims to precedence.†   (source)
  • From the battle of Austerlitz until the difficulties of 1848, the Tristero drifted on, deprived of nearly all the noble patronage that had sustained them: now reduced to handling anarchist correspondence; only peripherally engaged—in Germany with the ill-fated Frankfurt Assembly, in Buda-Pesth at the barricades, perhaps even among the watchmakers of the Jura, preparing them for the coming of M. Bakunin.†   (source)
  • At the time nothing more than the cry for more patronage was involved, Cabinet Members having originally been specifically exempt.†   (source)
  • It was a power that placed party above all other considerations, a power that fed on party loyalty, patronage and political organizations.†   (source)
  • "We are becoming a mere collection of local potato plots and cabbage grounds," complained one Senator, weary of the constant bickering over local patronage, rivers and harbors projects and tariff-protected industries.†   (source)
  • Moreover, in these days of Civil Service, the loaves and fishes of patronage available to the legislator—for distribution to those earnest campaigners whose efforts were inspired by something more than mere conviction—are comparatively few; and he who breaks the party's ranks may find that there are suddenly none at all.†   (source)
  • Toohey laughed when Keating reminded him of the distinguished restaurants made famous by Toohey's patronage.†   (source)
  • I've seen such pitiful cases in the South— barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife!†   (source)
  • Courage indeed was needed for this, because the avant-garde's emigration from bourgeois society to bohemia meant also an emigration from the markets of capitalism, upon which artists and writers had been thrown by the falling away of aristocratic patronage.†   (source)
  • And, for several decades before the Civil War, it had enjoyed the summer patronage of fashionable people from Charleston and the plantations of the hot South.†   (source)
  • She saw second-hand furniture, an Oriental rug of rare texture and sensuous color, jade ash trays, pieces of sculpture that came from historical excavations, anything he had wished to seize, helped by the sudden fortune of Wynand's patronage.†   (source)
  • His period of admiration was over, and he reacted towards patronage.†   (source)
  • He had come, in a mood of solemn parental patronage, to look on.†   (source)
  • A-ah! if he is to be under special patronage, I withdraw my claws.†   (source)
  • She treated Mrs. Morel with a certain glibness and Morel with patronage.†   (source)
  • At length an expressman approached Carley, soliciting patronage.†   (source)
  • There was not the slightest touch of patronage.†   (source)
  • How tiresome she had been with her patronage of Aziz!†   (source)
  • Also—and this was more important than all—he had the advantage of being under exalted patronage.†   (source)
  • When they returned he had to endure the patronage of the young soda-clerks.†   (source)
  • The tide of patronage dropped a little below what it had been at its best since he had been there.†   (source)
  • Literary patronage was, however, with her as much a mania as was the love of gorgeous clothes.†   (source)
  • It was nothing like the class of patronage which he had enjoyed in Chicago.†   (source)
  • "Here, Solomon," said the Squire, with loud patronage.†   (source)
  • So far, there was no sign of hard work, and he resolved to lend the spectacle his patronage.†   (source)
  • Patronage does not trouble me when it is well meant.†   (source)
  • We are too old to regard fashion, too old to expect patronage of any greater or more powerful.†   (source)
  • Nicholas and Denisov were walking up and down, looking with kindly patronage at the dancers.†   (source)
  • 'Oh,' returned Tom, with contemptuous patronage, 'she's a regular girl.†   (source)
  • I'm hanged if I'll stand your airs of superiority and infernal pity and patronage.†   (source)
  • UNDER THE DIRECT PATRONAGE OF THE GOD TINGOU!†   (source)
  • There was a wonderful air of benignity and patronage in his manner.†   (source)
  • Dismiss the Dedlock patronage from consideration?†   (source)
  • The Long Noses form a peculiar company, under the direct patronage of the god Tingou.†   (source)
  • The emperor offered him favor and patronage, which he refused.†   (source)
  • These disappointments of her patronage were a sharp retort, and made me feel independent.†   (source)
  • There was a shade of condescension and patronage in his treatment of Berg and Vera.†   (source)
  • I might have thanked Mrs. Bute for her patronage, and Mr. Pitt for his insufferable condescension.†   (source)
  • Her patronage became more and more insufferable.†   (source)
  • It was nothing to her that the kindness took the form of tolerant patronage; she was used to that.†   (source)
  • I presume you know, gentlemen, to whom my friend is indebted for this piece of patronage?†   (source)
  • I am deeply obliged to you for your encouragement and patronage, but it was papa who asked for it.†   (source)
  • The flight from Oniton; the unbalanced patronage of the Basts; the explosion of grief up on the Downs—all connected with Paul, an insignificant boy whose lips had kissed hers for a fraction of time.†   (source)
  • But down here he acts the little god with his gentility, and his patronage, and his sham aesthetics, and every one--even your mother--is taken in.†   (source)
  • —went with the timorous patronage of these creatures towards him and held out a grey ear to be whispered into.†   (source)
  • Later in the same year, wishing to get out of school because he already felt himself very much belated in the race, he secured a place as an assistant to a soda water clerk in one of the cheaper drug stores of the city, which adjoined a theater and enjoyed not a little patronage of this sort.†   (source)
  • …to the 'little nucleus,' the 'little group,' the 'little clan' at the Verdurins', one condition sufficed, but that one was indispensable; you must give tacit adherence to a Creed one of whose articles was that the young pianist, whom Mme. Verdurin had taken under her patronage that year, and of whom she said "Really, it oughtn't to be allowed, to play Wagner as well as that!" left both Plante and Rubinstein 'sitting'; while Dr. Cottard was a more brilliant diagnostician than Potain.†   (source)
  • He had learned from Naphta that Settembrini was a Freemason—which made no less an impression on him than had the Italian's revelation of Naphta's Jesuit origins and patronage.†   (source)
  • Catching the faint patronage Abe said lightly: "Something tells me I'll have a new score on Broadway long before you've finished your scientific treatise."†   (source)
  • And some day when he gets away from Harry Haydock's patronage and ridicule, he'll do something fine."†   (source)
  • And even could it have been found, how were the ladies on whose approval she depended to be induced to give her their patronage?†   (source)
  • STEPHEN [actually smiling, and putting his hand on his father's shoulder with indulgent patronage] Really, my dear father, it is impossible to be angry with you.†   (source)
  • The prospect of leaving his sheltered den for the patronage of the Reverend Mr. Hinkley was intolerable.†   (source)
  • The hotel was continually losing patronage because of its shabbiness and she thought of herself as also shabby.†   (source)
  • Even this arrangement was not effected without considerable negotiation, for Mme. Regina had a strong prejudice against untrained assistance, and was induced to yield only by the fact that she owed the patronage of Mrs. Bry and Mrs. Gormer to Carry Fisher's influence.†   (source)
  • "I don't want your patronage.†   (source)
  • The dread of Watters's patronage enabled Martin to lie vigorously: "Awfully sorry—awfully sorry—got a date for tomorrow evening and the next evening.†   (source)
  • …lovely aggregation of beautiful actresses—and I got to admit I butted right into his dressing-room and told him how the Boosters appreciated the high-class artistic performance he's giving us—and don't forget that the treasurer of the Dodsworth is a Booster and will appreciate our patronage—and when on top of that we yank Hizzonor out of his multifarious duties at City Hall, then I feel we've done ourselves proud, and Mr. Prout will now say a few words about the problems and duties—"†   (source)
  • Instances of young lady-milliners establishing themselves under fashionable patronage, and imparting to their "creations" that indefinable touch which the professional hand can never give, had flattered Gerty's visions of the future, and convinced even Lily that her separation from Mrs. Norma Hatch need not reduce her to dependence on her friends.†   (source)
  • They were anxious that he should enter society under the auspices of this lady, whose patronage was the best of recommendations for any young man.†   (source)
  • This gentleman belonged to a German family of decidedly bourgeois origin, but he had a knack of acquiring the patronage of "big-wigs," and of retaining their favour.†   (source)
  • Even if there seems something strange about the match, the general and his wife said to each other, the "world" will accept Aglaya's fiance without any question if he is under the patronage of the princess.†   (source)
  • He was beyond comparison the most pleasant man; he certainly admired her, and his situation in life was most eligible; but, to counterbalance these advantages, Mr. Darcy had considerable patronage in the church, and his cousin could have none at all.†   (source)
  • It was only twenty minutes before that he had bought the first picture of his life, and now he was already thinking of art-patronage as a fascinating pursuit.†   (source)
  • Your most instructive pamphlet has been widely circulated through the patronage of the bishop, and has been of appreciable service….†   (source)
  • She spoke of her as you might speak of some young person of genius—in want of encouragement and patronage.†   (source)
  • These articles Phoebe accordingly supplied, and, as a mark of gratitude for his previous patronage, and a slight super-added morsel after breakfast, put likewise into his hand a whale!†   (source)
  • A young man really well deserves constant support and patronage,' looking at the Doctor, 'who makes such sacrifices.'†   (source)
  • The prosperous patronage with which he said it, made him look twice as big as he was, and four times as offensive.†   (source)
  • It seems very unfitting that I should have this patronage, yet I felt that I ought not to let it be used by some one else instead of me.†   (source)
  • Mrs Warren looks round at Vivie and says, with her affectation of maternal patronage even more forced than usual] Well, dearie: have you had a good supper?†   (source)
  • But since their talent for music has brought them precociously into public notice, I must beg for your kind and indulgent patronage and—leave to take them back to the swamp.'†   (source)
  • He was soon employed in various situations of responsibility and confidence, which both served to elevate his character in the public estimation, and to afford the means of patronage.†   (source)
  • I salute you, MARIE MICHON To this letter was added an order, conceived in these terms: At the Louvre, August 10, 1628 The superior of the convent of Bethune will place in the hands of the person who shall present this note to her the novice who entered the convent upon my recommendation and under my patronage.†   (source)
  • I asked him, with a modest patronage.†   (source)
  • I will not say that his love for that good fellow did not owe some of its force to the love of patronage: our friend Arthur liked to do everything that was handsome, and to have his handsome deeds recognized.†   (source)
  • Could I have hoped to render it worthy of your patronage, the public would at once have seen the propriety of inscribing a work designed to illustrate the domestic antiquities of England, and particularly of our Saxon forefathers, to the learned author of the Essays upon the Horn of King Ulphus, and on the Lands bestowed by him upon the patrimony of St Peter.†   (source)
  • Major Effingham, in declining the liberal offers of the British ministry, had subjected himself to the suspicion of having attained his dotage, by all those who throng the avenues to court patronage, even in the remotest corners of that vast empire; but, when he thus voluntarily stripped himself of his great personal wealth, the remainder of the community seemed instinctively to adopt the conclusion also that he had reached a second childhood.†   (source)
  • On that event they removed to Mansfield; and the Parsonage there, which, under each of its two former owners, Fanny had never been able to approach but with some painful sensation of restraint or alarm, soon grew as dear to her heart, and as thoroughly perfect in her eyes, as everything else within the view and patronage of Mansfield Park had long been.†   (source)
  • I merely hinted at her obtaining temporary assistance as the widow of an official who had died in the service—if only she has patronage…. but apparently your late parent had not served his full term and had not indeed been in the service at all of late.†   (source)
  • Poor Tom's blundering patronage when they were out of doors together would sometimes make him turn upon the well-meaning lad quite savagely; and his eyes, usually sad and quiet, would flash with anything but playful lightning.†   (source)
  • Thus it is that in the country districts of the South, by written or unwritten law, peonage, hindrances to the migration of labor, and a system of white patronage exists over large areas.†   (source)
  • As in aristocratic communities all the citizens occupy fixed positions, one above the other, the result is that each of them always sees a man above himself whose patronage is necessary to him, and below himself another man whose co-operation he may claim.†   (source)
  • As they drew near to their destination, however, Mr. Bumble thought it expedient to look down, and see that the boy was in good order for inspection by his new master: which he accordingly did, with a fit and becoming air of gracious patronage.†   (source)
  • We may believe, however, that Osmond knew very well what he was about, and that if he chose to use the tone of patronage with a grossness not in his habits he had an excellent reason for the escapade.†   (source)
  • I can recall but one consul of the name; their rank was senatorial, and their patronage always sought because they were always rich.†   (source)
  • But it is proved by the smallness of the school, which I have heard you speak of, as under the patronage of your sister and Mrs. Bragge; the only school, and not more than five-and-twenty children.†   (source)
  • But not by way of patronage, you know, helping with money; she's herself preparing the boys in Russian for the high school, and she's taken the little girl to live with her.†   (source)
  • And adopting, in addition to his superiority, which was rather bantering, an accent of tender authority and gentle patronage:— "Come along with me, young 'uns!†   (source)
  • Pennyways now felt himself to be in something of a difficulty, for should Bathsheba and Troy become reconciled it would be necessary to regain her good opinion if he would secure the patronage of her husband.†   (source)
  • I could only conceive this singular behavior to arise from a consummate self-conceit assuming the vulgar airs of patronage and protection.†   (source)
  • That being clearly stated, I take it to be, as it were, a duty, that we should extend our patronage to a degraded stage, even for the sake of the associations with which it is entwined.†   (source)
  • I would suggest that as you think her worthy of your patronage, you should exert your influence to keep her from these dangerous hands.†   (source)
  • Why, yes, he is actually insolent over the matter—has already offered me his patronage, as if he were a grand personage, and proffered me a loan of money, as though he were a banker.†   (source)
  • But their influence was not altogether aristocratic as that term is understood in Europe, since they possessed no privileges; and the cultivation of their estates being carried on by slaves, they had no tenants depending on them, and consequently no patronage.†   (source)
  • He was saying the affectionate word, however, with a far more grudging condescension and patronage than he could have shown if their relative merits and positions had been reversed (which is invariably the case, all the world over), when Mr. Cruncher, touching him on the shoulder, hoarsely and unexpectedly interposed with the following singular question: "I say!†   (source)
  • "Well, youngster, must I take you?" he said, trying to smile, when Addy stretched out his arms—ready, with the usual baseness of infancy, to give up his Uncle Seth at once, now there was some rarer patronage at hand.†   (source)
  • 'The boy is very well, sir,' said Mr. Giles, recovering his usual tone of patronage; 'and sends his respectful duty, sir.'†   (source)
  • "Well, Bob," said Tom, with a slight air of patronage, the foregoing reminscences having disposed him to be as friendly as was becoming, though there was no part of his acquaintance with Bob that he remembered better than the cause of their parting quarrel; "is there anything I can do for you?"†   (source)
  • "Why, your excellency," returned the landlord, chuckling and rubbing his hands with infinite complacency, "I think I may take upon myself to say I neglect nothing to deserve the support and patronage of the noble visitors to this poor hotel."†   (source)
  • [I have not the means of ascertaining the number of appointments now at the disposal of the President of the United States, but his patronage and the abuse of it have largely increased since 1833.†   (source)
  • Newman had been a trifle bewildered by the audacious irony of the younger brother, and he had not needed its aid to point the moral of M. de Bellegarde's transcendent patronage.†   (source)
  • If Kim had walked proudly the day before, disciple of a holy man, today he paced with tenfold pride in the train of a semi-royal procession, with a recognized place under the patronage of an old lady of charming manners and infinite resource.†   (source)
  • "I am sure he is a very deserving, well-principled young man," said Rosamond, with a neat air of patronage in return for Mrs. Plymdale's wholesome corrections.†   (source)
  • In these same aristocratic ages, in which all the sources of our history are to be traced, personal property was of small importance, and those who possessed it were despised and weak: the manufacturing class formed an exception in the midst of those aristocratic communities; as it had no certain patronage, it was not outwardly protected, and was often unable to protect itself.†   (source)
  • Suffice it to say, that I believe the applications for loans, gifts, and offices of profit that I have been requested to forward to the originals of the BROTHERS CHEERYBLE (with whom I never interchanged any communication in my life) would have exhausted the combined patronage of all the Lord Chancellors since the accession of the House of Brunswick, and would have broken the Rest of the Bank of England.†   (source)
  • Mr. Jack Maldon shook hands with me; but not very warmly, I believed; and with an air of languid patronage, at which I secretly took great umbrage.†   (source)
  • If you were to renounce this patronage and these favors, I suppose you would do so with some faint hope of one day repaying what you have already had.†   (source)
  • I have already more than once spoken of the disgusting air of patronage which he assumed toward me, and of his frequent officious interference withy my will.†   (source)
  • 'This young gentleman is blessed, in a peculiar way, with every thing the heart of mortal can most desire,—splendid property, noble kindred, and extensive patronage.†   (source)
  • Boris was now a rich man who had risen to high honors and no longer sought patronage but stood on an equal footing with the highest of those of his own age.†   (source)
  • The deep humiliation with which he had winced under Caleb Garth's knowledge of his past and rejection of his patronage, alternated with and almost gave way to the sense of safety in the fact that Garth, and no other, had been the man to whom Raffles had spoken.†   (source)
  • And as she still stood reflecting, and looking at him with an eye which, in spite of her desire to treat this avidity of patronage as a very old story, betrayed an almost touching incredulity, he was afraid he had offended her.†   (source)
  • "How did you like my reading of the character, gentlemen?" said Mr. Waldengarver, almost, if not quite, with patronage.†   (source)
  • In the last great games the emperor himself offered me his patronage if I would take his horses in hand and run them against the entries of the world.†   (source)
  • These three young gentlemen, Mr. Stryver, exuding patronage of the most offensive quality from every pore, had walked before him like three sheep to the quiet corner in Soho, and had offered as pupils to Lucie's husband: delicately saying "Halloa! here are three lumps of bread-andcheese towards your matrimonial picnic, Darnay!"†   (source)
  • I cut and handed the sweet seed-cake — the little sisters had a bird-like fondness for picking up seeds and pecking at sugar; Miss Lavinia looked on with benignant patronage, as if our happy love were all her work; and we were perfectly contented with ourselves and one another.†   (source)
  • Mrs Nickleby confirming her daughter with the best possible grace—for there was patronage in that too, and a kind of implication that she had a discerning taste in such matters, and was something of a critic—John Browdie proceeded to consider the words of some north-country ditty, and to take his wife's recollection respecting the same.†   (source)
  • Such power and patronage: such relatives of influence and rank: as smiled upon me then, look coldly now; but there are smiling fields and waving trees in England's richest county; and by one village church—mine, Rose, my own!†   (source)
  • But the States were alarmed at a power, distinct from their own, which could thus dispose of a portion of their territory; and they were afraid that the central Government would, by this means, acquire a formidable extent of patronage within their own confines, and exercise a degree of influence which they intended to reserve exclusively to their own agents.†   (source)
  • '—My mind, however, is now made up on the subject, for having received ordination at Easter, I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of Sir Lewis de Bourgh, whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the valuable rectory of this parish, where it shall be my earnest endeavour to demean myself with grateful respect towards her ladyship, and be ever ready to perform those rites and ceremonies which are…†   (source)
  • Truly, there she was, immediately in front of us, curtsying, and smiling, and saying with her yesterday's air of patronage, "The wards in Jarndyce!†   (source)
  • Caesar offered him his patronage.†   (source)
  • …permitted to listen to, and console his mind with, a general supplication of the boys, containing a special clause, therein inserted by authority of the board, in which they entreated to be made good, virtuous, contented, and obedient, and to be guarded from the sins and vices of Oliver Twist: whom the supplication distinctly set forth to be under the exclusive patronage and protection of the powers of wickedness, and an article direct from the manufactory of the very Devil himself.†   (source)
  • If the villain had stopped here, his case would have been sufficiently awful, but he blackened his guilt by proceeding to take me into custody, with a right of patronage that left all his former criminality far behind.†   (source)
  • Wilfully and wantonly to have thrown off the companion of my youth, the acknowledged favourite of my father, a young man who had scarcely any other dependence than on our patronage, and who had been brought up to expect its exertion, would be a depravity, to which the separation of two young persons, whose affection could be the growth of only a few weeks, could bear no comparison.†   (source)
  • "In short, my valued friend," pursued Miss Flite, advancing her lips to my ear with an air of equal patronage and mystery, "I must tell you a secret.†   (source)
  • As I was looking out of window that same evening, it surprised me, and made me rather uneasy, to see Mr. Micawber and Uriah Heep walk past, arm in arm: Uriah humbly sensible of the honour that was done him, and Mr. Micawber taking a bland delight in extending his patronage to Uriah.†   (source)
  • But Mr. Brooke had been right in predicting that Dorothea would not long remain passive where action had been assigned to her; she knew the purport of her husband's will made at the time of their marriage, and her mind, as soon as she was clearly conscious of her position, was silently occupied with what she ought to do as the owner of Lowick Manor with the patronage of the living attached to it.†   (source)
  • In that circle they discountenanced those who advised hurried preparations for a removal to Kazan of the court and the girls' educational establishments under the patronage of the Dowager Empress.†   (source)
  • With some endowment of stupidity and conceit, she might have thought that a Christian young lady of fortune should find her ideal of life in village charities, patronage of the humbler clergy, the perusal of "Female Scripture Characters," unfolding the private experience of Sara under the Old Dispensation, and Dorcas under the New, and the care of her soul over her embroidery in her own boudoir—with a background of prospective marriage to a man who, if less strict than herself, as…†   (source)
  • Little Dorrit was not without doubts how Mr Henry Gowan might take their patronage; but she promised not to fail in the reminder.†   (source)
  • I was rather bashful at first, Steerforth being so self-possessed, and elegant, and superior to me in all respects (age included); but his easy patronage soon put that to rights, and made me quite at home.†   (source)
  • He is constant in his patronage of Peepy and is understood to have bequeathed him a favourite French clock in his dressing-room—which is not his property.†   (source)
  • Rawdon and his wife generously gave their patronage to all such of Miss Crawley's tradesmen and purveyors as chose to serve them.†   (source)
  • The Empress Marya, concerned for the welfare of the charitable and educational institutions under her patronage, had given directions that they should all be removed to Kazan, and the things belonging to these institutions had already been packed up.†   (source)
  • In a hard way, and in an uncertain way that fluctuated between patronage and putting down, the sprinkling from a watering-pot and hydraulic pressure, Mrs Clennam showed an interest in this dependent.†   (source)
  • A lady very like her subsequently kept a milliner's shop in the Rue du Helder at Paris, where she lived with great credit and enjoyed the patronage of my Lord Steyne.†   (source)
  • He had a brilliant position in society thanks to his intimacy with Countess Bezukhova, a brilliant position in the service thanks to the patronage of an important personage whose complete confidence he enjoyed, and he was beginning to make plans for marrying one of the richest heiresses in Petersburg, plans which might very easily be realized.†   (source)
  • Now, as heretofore, he is to be found in doorways of rooms, with his limp white cravat loosely twisted into its old-fashioned tie, receiving patronage from the peerage and making no sign.†   (source)
  • And here he prepared himself for public life, into which he was to be introduced by the patronage of his grandfather, Lord Binkie, by studying the ancient and modern orators with great assiduity, and by speaking unceasingly at the debating societies.†   (source)
  • A habit in him of speaking to the poor and of avoiding patronage or condescension or childishness (which is the favourite device, many people deeming it quite a subtlety to talk to them like little spelling books) has put him on good terms with the woman easily.†   (source)
  • 'If I had thought of it, Amy,' said Mr Dorrit, with a patronage as magnificent as that of Lord Decimus himself, 'you should have despatched a note to them, asking them to dine to-day.†   (source)
  • I knew very well that if he could have had the power of seeing me as I was, he would consider the poor girl tarnished by having for a moment been, although most innocently, the subject of my great and distinguished patronage.†   (source)
  • His brother Frederick of the dim eye, palsied hand, bent form, and groping mind, submissively shuffled at his side, accepting his patronage as he accepted every incident of the labyrinthian world in which he had got lost.†   (source)
  • The patronage and kindness of these ladies was very uncomfortable to Amelia, but she bore it meekly enough, for her nature was to yield; and, besides, the carriage and its splendours gave little Georgy immense pleasure.†   (source)
  • …you want to get this print upon the tables of my high connexion, sir," says Mr. Sladdery, the librarian, "or if you want to get this dwarf or giant into the houses of my high connexion, sir, or if you want to secure to this entertainment the patronage of my high connexion, sir, you must leave it, if you please, to me, for I have been accustomed to study the leaders of my high connexion, sir, and I may tell you without vanity that I can turn them round my finger"— in which Mr. Sladdery,…†   (source)
  • In the principles of religion and morality, Miss Sedley will be found worthy of an establishment which has been honoured by the presence of THE GREAT LEXICOGRAPHER, and the patronage of the admirable Mrs. Chapone.†   (source)
  • His patronage did not stop here; for he charged Maggy to get the tea ready, and instructed her to buy certain tea-cakes, fresh butter, eggs, cold ham, and shrimps: to purchase which collation he gave her a bank-note for ten pounds, laying strict injunctions on her to be careful of the change.†   (source)
  • In return for this consideration he would come into the room once a day, all but blessing it—showing a condescension, and a patronage, and a grace of manner in dispensing the light of his highshouldered presence from which I might have supposed him (if I had not known better) to have been the benefactor of Caddy's life.†   (source)
  • Sir Pitt had concluded no bargain for the sale of the living of Queen's Crawley; when it should drop, her Ladyship proposed to take the patronage into her own hands and present a young protege to the Rectory, on which subject the diplomatic Pitt said nothing.†   (source)
  • He felt that he could leave her with a quiet mind to tread the paths of distinction, and wished—but without abatement of patronage, and without prejudice to the retiring virtues of his favourite child—that he had such another daughter.†   (source)
  • Pity and patronage!†   (source)
  • On his imparting the news to Gowan, that Master gave Mr Dorrit to the Devil with great liberality some round dozen of times (for he resented patronage almost as much as he resented the want of it), and was inclined to quarrel with his friend for bringing him the message.†   (source)
  • Old Nandy had been several times to the Marshalsea College, communicating with his son-in-law during his short durance there; and had happily acquired to himself, and had by degrees and in course of time much improved, the patronage of the Father of that national institution.†   (source)
  • Recognising her claim upon their generous feelings as one who had long been a member of their community, they pledged themselves, with great feeling, to deal with Mrs Plornish, come what would and bestow their patronage on no other establishment.†   (source)
  • In that company I found a girl, in various circumstances of whose position there was a singular likeness to my own, and in whose character I was interested and pleased to see much of the rising against swollen patronage and selfishness, calling themselves kindness, protection, benevolence, and other fine names, which I have described as inherent in my nature.†   (source)
  • On the return of that lady to tea, she had touched herself up with a little powder and pomatum, and was not without moral enchantment likewise: the latter showing itself in much sweet patronage of manner towards Miss Dorrit, and in an air of as tender interest in Mr Dorrit as was consistent with rigid propriety.†   (source)
  • I am sorry to say that my patronage ends with this; and my interest is hardly more extensive.†   (source)
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