A restaurant unpatronized by the elite. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It's one of five in the city and probably the most unpatronized. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
It's like, you're pondering what kind of business to start, and as you walk pass six struggling, unpatronized hair salons all lined up in a row, you think, I know!. From Wordnik.com. [Cutting My Own Bangs] Reference
The indulgence shewn by the Public to Evelina, which, unpatronized, unaided, and unowned, past through Four Editions in one Year, has encouraged its Author to risk this SECOND attempt. From Wordnik.com. [Cecilia] Reference
I cannot conclude these opinions without paying tribute to the talents of my illustrious country-women; who, unpatronized by the courts, and unprotected by the powerful, persevere in the paths of literature, and ennoble themselves by the unperishable lustre of MENTAL PRE-EMINENCE!. From Wordnik.com. [Sappho and Phaon] Reference
He now found one of his most frequent visitants accusing him of treason, in hopes of sharing his confiscation; yet, unpatronized and unsupported, he cleared himself by the openness of innocence, and the consistence of truth; he was dismissed with honour, and his accuser perished in prison. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference
The policy of freeing the country from the restrictive tariff will so variegate and multiply the undertakings in the country that there will be a wider market and a greater competition for labor; it will let the sun shine through the clouds again as once it shone on the free, independent, unpatronized intelligence and energy of a great people. From Wordnik.com. [The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People] Reference
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 unpatronized professional merit, although, to outward appearance, that was all he had to depend upon. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since] Reference
The heterogeneous triflings which now, I am very sorry to say, occupy so much of our time, will be neglected; fashion's votaries will silently fall off; dishonest exertions for rank in society will be scorned; extravagance in toilet will be detested; that meager and worthless pride of station will be forgotten; the honest earnings of dependents will be paid; popular demagogues crushed; impostors unpatronized; true genius sincerely encouraged; and, above all, pawned integrity redeemed!. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference
A rapidity far surpassing the usual pace of unpatronized professional merit, although, to outward appearance, that was all he had to depend upon. From Wordnik.com. [The Waverley] Reference
Castle by an "unpatronized female" in 1796, the writer complained "Since Mrs Radcliffe's justly admired and successful romances, the press has teemed with stories of haunted castles and visionary terrors; the incidents of which are so little diversified, that criticism is at a loss to vary its remarks" (Anon, 16. From Wordnik.com. [Haunted Britain in the 1970s] Reference
"The author, unpatronized by the great, has naturally recourse to the bookseller. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Goldsmith A Biography] Reference
“The author, unpatronized by the great, has naturally recourse to the bookseller. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Goldsmith]
"The author, when unpatronized by the great, has naturally recourse to the bookseller. From Wordnik.com. [Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series] Reference
'To modeft youth unpatronized by power. From Wordnik.com. [Edward, Or, The Curate: A Poem in Three Cantos] Reference
Compelled by poverty to leave his education uncompleted, he sought the means of living in London, where, for a long time, unpatronized and obscure, he labored with dogged perseverance, until at length he won a fame which must have satisfied the most grasping ambition, but when, as he says, "most of those whom he had wished to please had sunk into the grave, and he had little to fear from censure or praise.". From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference
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