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"It's all well nuff ter talk bout givin some o' yer things away wen yer likely to lose em all." With that, turning her back upon her terrified mistress, with the air of a queen refusing a petition, she patronizingly assured Desire that she had met with more favor in her eyes than her mother, and she would accordingly protect her.
He rested his elbow on the table, and with his hand covered his large and beautiful eyes, which were half closed, and reddened with nightwatches or tears. He repeated his fragments from memory. His doubting auditors looked at him haughtily, or at least patronizingly; others carelessly glanced over the translation of his verses.
Diego grinned bashfully when Jack's shadow flung itself across the saddle and so announced his coming, and stood up and waited humbly before the white señor who had fought for him, a mere peon, born to kicks and cursings rather than to kindness, and so had won the very soul of him. "Bueno," praised Jack patronizingly.
The Congressman smiled patronizingly on the youth. "Why, of course they will. That's politics, practical politics, the only kind that's known in Washington. You see " "But the leaders of the great parties!" cried the young plantation manager, in amazement. "Why don't they prevent this?"
And he added, patronizingly, "You should keep your ears open, my boy; then you might be worth what the king pays you." "No less, I trust," said I, "for he pays me nothing." Indeed, at this time I held no office save the honorary position of chamberlain to Her Majesty. Any advice the king needed from me was asked and given unofficially.
After all, he was here incognito talking to his love he could wink patronizingly at the world. So Perry danced the cotillion. I say danced, but that is stretching the word far beyond the wildest dreams of the jazziest terpsichorean.
"The boss of the Senate" smiled patronizingly on the senior Senator from Mississippi, as though amused and scornful of his limitations as a strategist, as a tenacious fighter. Then his jaw set hard, and his brows contracted. "I will not do anything. I cannot do anything" he hesitated a full ten seconds "but Jake Steinert can." Stevens' hands twitched nervously.
He looked patronizingly at the red-plush furniture which was being splendidly carried into the great house from Jordan's dray an old friend of Carl's, which had often carried him banging through town. He condescended: "Jiminy! You don't know Bennie Rusk nor nobody, do you! I'll bring him and we can play soldiers. And we can make tents out of carpets. Did you ever run through carpets on the line?"
Well," continued the speaker patronizingly, "you're quite right; it's a bad habit to get into. Leave it till you've left school." "And then, when you smoke before ladies," added Helen, "ask their permission first." "Oh, we haven't come here to learn manners," said Raymond, with a snort. "So it appears," returned the lady icily.
A little far-fetched, but not bad for a beginner," said Aunt Abigail patronizingly, while Ruth patted Priscilla's tall head, not without difficulty, and Amy read aloud. "'What is the most important of the United States? New York, I suppose, though of course I like my own state lots better." "No, it's matrimony."
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