She patronizes her friends, worsts her enemies,-then, when she "entertains"....
"One Woman's Life"
Robert Herrick
And on this particular morning it was especially disagreeable to him that those eyes had seen him making his unoffending notes, although there was scarcely a shade of gentle condescension-that of a great lord who patronizes a great artist-in the manner in which Hafner addressed him.
"Cosmopolis, Complete"
Paul Bourget Last Updated: March 3, 2009
Not only the class who likes to waste conspicuously, but many a teacher, many a young man in State or Government employ with an income of one, two, or three thousand a year patronizes these rooms.
"The Cost of Shelter"
Ellen H. Richards