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 of merit, would be apt to put down the names of a few such persons, and to fill up the remainder of their list with mere party candidates, thus helping to swell the numbers against those by whom they would prefer to be represented.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representative Government] Reference

The author, when unpatronised by the Great, has naturally recourse to the bookseller.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson]

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 this transaction, rose in the army with a rapidity far surpassing the usual pace of unpatronised professional merit, although, to outward appearance, that was all he had to depend upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley — Volume 1] Reference