Type of saint

Usage examples of patron.

Empty now, the parking lot was once filled with very expensive luxury cars and SUVs, owned by the patrons of the upscale billiards parlor, Nine Balls.

The excluded classes had been the leaders, the commanders, the men of position, the friends and the patrons of those who, only less guilty because less influential and powerful, were now intrusted with the initial work in the re-establishment of civil Government in their respective States.

One hour having expired since he had come on board, he ordered his boat, and returned to the shore, and we saw no more of him until we arrived at Spithead, when his lordship came on board, accompanied by a person whom we soon discovered was a half pay purser in the navy: a man who, by dint of the grossest flattery and numerous little attentions, had so completely ingratiated himself with his patron, that he had become as necessary an appendage to the travelling equipage, as the portmanteau or the valet-de-chambre.

Haar verbazingwekkende handen hadden ingewikkelde patronen geweven in de op een mand lijkende stoel van schaafstro.

Kamboja stallion that had proved implacable even in the heat of battle, wheeled in startled terror, settling only after he whispered the mantra of Shani, his patron deity, in its ear.

Farrow rode up to the third floor, where patrons were already lining up for the ten-thirty show featuring sitcom star Mike Minner and the usual accompaniment of barely clad show girls.

It had been ringing all through his lunch at the Bello Mondo and the other patrons were beginning to get annoyed.

Detective Marume had learned that Nitta was patron to many courtesans besides Wisteria.

And even if they have not endured their excommunication for a year, such obstructors can still be proceeded against as patrons of heretics.

While keeping most of the picture intact, thus saving on the expense of hiring an artist, a modest amount of overpainting could transform Veronica Lake into Saint Veronica and she would have her very own respectable patron saint for her business.

The needful dramatic illusion was obviously evoked in the playgoer of the past with an ease that is unknown to the present patrons of the stage.

Whilst a potman laboured to restart the ancient Wurlitzer, a canny Scotsman, in a kilt and war bonnet, entertained the disgruntled patrons with an exhibition of standing on one leg.

I worried about our jeans and T-shirts, which were indistinguishable from those of several people at the bar, although the other patrons had doubtless paid dearly to have theirs prefaded, shredded, and ripped by the Banana Republic instead of waiting to have them wrecked gratis by Canine Enterprises.

I joined the line of patrons to prepay the parking ticket and took the escalator upstairs.

The object of the bill proposed, the noble duke subsequently explained, was to give effect to the principle of non-intrusion on the right of the congregation to give their approval or dissent to the appointment of any presentee that might be offered them by the patron.