Prefers

Examples

• They say he will eat any thing he can get between meals, but he prefers oakum. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Your mamma prefers other accomplishments, I fancy. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It prefers the rule of its fri ends to the rule of a despot. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He prefers to take as few people as possible into his confidence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• They give one a lemon to squeeze into it, or iced milk, if he prefers it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He prefers a mixture of forms of government to any single one. Plato. The Republic.
• Prefers carriage exercise. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• At the narrow end of the cue, the tapering ceases about three-quarters of an inch from the end and flanges out according to the kind of tip the player prefers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The man must value the pipe highly when he prefers to patch it up rather than buy a new one with the same money. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Sweeting and Donne)--unless Davy Sweeting or Joseph Donne prefers going. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The ordinary man prefers easy ways so long as they may be followed, and is almost wilfully heedless whether they end at last in a cul-de-sac. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Walking home Rinaldi said, Miss Barkley prefers you to me. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• She prefers the dear boys. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• As to the little minstrel, he probably prefers encountering the Philistines with no other weapon than his flute. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But, in spite of all her friends' urgency, and her own wish of seeing Ireland, Miss Fairfax prefers devoting the time to you and Mrs. Bates? Jane Austen. Emma.
• It only remains, therefore, to discover what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The publisher however prefers to choose his own time and place and mode of treating them. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Most of us are familiar with the rain barrel of the country house, and know that the housewife prefers rain water for laundry and general work. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• On the contrary, my Lady prefers it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And we all pretend to be enormously surprised when the ignorant foreign vote prefers a corrupt political ring to a party of well-dressed, grammatical, and high-minded gentlemen. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Arabella said, and now-- Now she prefers somebody else. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Though Julia fancies she prefers tragedy, I would not trust her in it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I'm sick of the hypocrisy that would bury alive a woman of her age if her husband prefers to live with harlots. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Go out into it, since thou prefers it to a warm fireside. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He prefers public duties to private, and is somewhat impatient of the importunity of relations. Plato. The Republic.
• Naturally, she's a bird that prefers the bush. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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