Usage examples (3)

• The real difficulty, for it is not to be dissembled that there is a difficulty, is that the independent voters, those who are desirous of voting for unpatronised persons...
• The author, when unpatronised by the Great, has naturally recourse to the bookseller.
• What arguments he used on this point cannot exactly be known, for Sir Everard was never supposed strong in the powers of persuasion; but the young officer, immediately after...