All 9 Uses of
patron
in
Hard Times
- She stopped in her wild crying, a little detached herself from Emma Gordon, and turned her face full upon her patron.†
Chpt 1.6
- 'Well, ma'am,' said her patron, 'perhaps some people may be pleased to say that they do like to hear, in his own unpolished way, what Josiah Bounderby, of Coketown, has gone through.†
Chpt 1.7
- However improbable both Mr. Bounderby and myself might have deemed it years ago, that he would ever become my patron, making me an annual compliment, I cannot but regard him in that light.†
Chpt 2.1
- Therefore, to my patron I will be scrupulously true.
Chpt 2.1 *patron = financial supporter
- 'At all events, Mr. Harthouse,' said Tom, softening in his admiration of his patron, but shaking his head sullenly too, 'you can't tell her that I ever praised her for being mercenary.†
Chpt 2.7
- 'Bitzer,' said Mrs. Sparsit that afternoon, when her patron was gone on his journey, and the Bank was closing, 'present my compliments to young Mr. Thomas, and ask him if he would step up and partake of a lamb chop and walnut ketchup, with a glass of India ale?'†
Chpt 2.11
- CHAPTER III — VERY DECIDED THE indefatigable Mrs. Sparsit, with a violent cold upon her, her voice reduced to a whisper, and her stately frame so racked by continual sneezes that it seemed in danger of dismemberment, gave chase to her patron until she found him in the metropolis; and there, majestically sweeping in upon him at his hotel in St. James's Street, exploded the combustibles with which she was charged, and blew up.†
Chpt 3.3
- Bitzer, still holding the paralysed culprit by the collar, stood in the Ring, blinking at his old patron through the darkness of the twilight.†
Chpt 3.8
- In virtue thereof, it had become her habit to assume a woful look, which woful look she now bestowed upon her patron.†
Chpt 3.9
Definition:
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(patron as in: a patron of the arts) someone who contributes money to an organization
or:
a supporter of an organization or person