"I think you're absorbing," Peter said, a little patronisingly perhaps.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
"Thank you very much," Lilly replied patronisingly.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
The pictures of famous actors smiled down on her patronisingly from the walls, and she was reminded of the connection between cleanliness of person and purity of conscience as she made her toilette.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann