What is "patrons"

Usage examples of "patrons".

From his retreat he moves the outside puppets of secretary, shadows, and call-boys, as the requirements of his patrons, who are admitted singly to his presence, may demand.

It is plain, knowing of these patrons and prices, that reasonable profit attends upon the practice of the convenient science of getting without giving, which, notwithstanding its prosperity and antiquity, is yet an infant in the perfection it has attained.

They are the patrons and supporters of dog and rat pits, and every brutal sport.

The brokers, as well as other patrons, go in the night time to try and regain what they lost by day in speculation.

Chamberlain affords to his patrons to lose or win, as luck may direct, he keeps a sort of midnight national bank, where he will cash a check for any man he knows as a reliable party, and many who never think of gambling take advantage of his accommodating spirit.

These children are regular patrons of the Bowery Theatre and the low-class concert halls.

I heard once that Mandrake holds Naamah chose her patrons like victims and whipped them to violent pleasures, leaving them sated and half-dead.

It is, as are the others, marked with a discreet insignia upon the gate that admits patrons into its domain.

Hyacinthe was known and tolerated with no small affection, and the inn-keep and regular patrons permitted him the small mystery of my visits without prying into my presence.

Of course many patrons, he told me in his dry voice, preferred to bring their own implements.

I am afraid that the patrons you attract are not the sort to air their penchants in public.

I was young and beautiful, and I chose my patrons from among the scions of Elua.

I had been so long dissembling among patrons, I was awkward in vaunting my learning.

No matter how many patrons I had had, none of them had ever turned my knees to water with a glance.

I felt an unwarranted thrill of boldness as I looked other patrons full in the face.