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2. (quote-book); and Thomas Cadell Jun. and W. Davies (successors to Mr. Cadell (publisher)|Thomas Cadell)(nb...)|year=1796|volume=III|pages=368–369|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=OyQJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA369|oclc=731568897|passage="A chearful glaſs, then," ſaid Sir Sedley, "you think horridly intolerable?" (..) "Well, the glaſs is not what I patroniſe," ſaid Sir Theophilus; "it hips me ſo conſumedly the next day; no, I can't patroniſe the glaſs." / "Not patroniſe wine?" cried Lord Newford; "O hang it! O curſe it! that's too bad, Offy!(nb..)"

3. (quote-book)|year=1844|volume=I|page=181|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=CuoDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA181|oclc=15788608|passage=Mr John Puffingham was a patron—a patron to the diversified layers and strata of men and things pertaining to sublunary matters. He patronised his hatter, who, once a year, smoothed a cheap-and-shabby for his bald and shining brow. He patronised his tailor in the neighbourhood of the Minories. He patronised his washerwoman, his dustman—a pawnbroker he once patronised when an unexpected call was made upon his exhausted exchequer.

4. (quote-book)|year=1851|volume=II|page=273|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=8LpKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA273|oclc=156177605|passage="Yes, she was inclined to patronise you, I thought." / "I don't think she meant to patronise me in particular, it's the sort of manner that comes to women when they find themselves married, especially if they have had aspirations after that state for some time.(nb..)"

5. (quote-book) by (w)|date=27 September 1856|year_published=1981|page=190|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=46pRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA190|isbn=978-0-300-02743-3|passage=In the eveng(si) a party of Artists at Millers where I met Davis who brought in a little sketch from nature, very beautiful. Miller asked me as a favour to buy it of him, which I could not refuse him although it puts me in the aucward(si) position of patronising a man whom I think far too well of to attempt the like with – however it is done.

6. (quote-book) The attraction of military and naval life was enhanced by the fact that the Royal family patronised it.

7. (quote-journal) although overcrowding on the trains running ''via'' London Bridge has occasioned considerable discomfort to regular travellers, it was noticed that the alternative route was not extensively patronised, and that the trains were seldom more than half-filled.

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9. (quote-book) (2007)|title=Tookey’s Turkeys: The Most Annoying 144 Films from the Last 25 Years|location=Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire|publisher=Matador|year=2015|page=81|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=qCx5BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA81|isbn=978-1-78462-197-1|passage=Of course, Nicholson|Jack Nicholson patronises him (w), much as a hare might a tortoise, except that hares can't arch an eyebrow and smirk.