1 His five tall brothers gave him good-by with admiring but slightly patronizing smiles, for Gerald was the baby and the little one of a brawny family.
2 Juanita had become patronizing, and she glanced disrespectfully at Carol's golden sash, which she had previously admired.
3 And she stopped being patronizing.
4 When he demanded, "I'd like to stage 'Suppressed Desires,' by Cook and Miss Glaspell," Carol ceased to be patronizing.
5 He adopted toward him an air of patronizing good humor.
6 She was rather surprised, therefore, when the silence remained unbroken, and Jo assumed a patronizing air, which decidedly aggravated Meg, who in turn assumed an air of dignified reserve and devoted herself to her mother.
7 He was possessed with a mania for patronizing Yankee ingenuity, and seeing his friends fitly furnished forth.
8 That abject hypocrite, Pumblechook, nodded again, and said, with a patronizing laugh, "It's more than that, Mum."
9 It was not that Moscow had been taken or that the happy conquerors were masters in it and were patronizing him.
10 I had often seen my noble patron annotating ancient volumes, and eagerly searching amongst dusty family manuscripts.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 18. The Treasure. 11 The same night, such a man of regularity was the patron of The Young Amelia, the profits were divided, and each man had a hundred Tuscan livres, or about eighty francs.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 12 There they had a bit of a skirmish in getting rid of the duties; the excise was, in truth, the everlasting enemy of the patron of The Young Amelia.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 13 The old patron did not interfere, for he too had recognized the superiority of Dantes over the crew and himself.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 14 When the patron awoke, the vessel was hurrying on with every sail set, and every sail full with the breeze.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 15 The old patron, who was obliged to sail in the morning in order to land his cargo on the frontiers of Piedmont and France, between Nice and Frejus, urged Dantes to try and rise.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.