Patrons
[peitrənz]
Examples
- The shops were opening and the cafes filling with early morning patrons. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Two or three of the houses were occupied by the families of members of the staff; in the others boarders were taken, the laboratory, of course, furnishing all the patrons. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A bell summoned the teachers, patrons, and patronesses to the schoolroom. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And as to the Patrons and Patronesses themselves, I wonder they're not ashamed of themselves. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The Popes have long been the patrons and preservers of art, just as our new, practical Republic is the encourager and upholder of mechanics. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- These are the patrons and teachers, who are to swell the procession. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And with this, and a profound bow to his patrons, the Manager retires, and the curtain rises. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I am told that the old masters had to do these shameful things for bread, the princes and potentates being the only patrons of art. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Better known to the patrons of our excursion boats and the visitors to our splendid battleships, are the electric search lights. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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