Favors

Examples

• The Colonel had his office full of people, mostly from the neighboring States of Missouri and Kentucky, making complaints or asking favors. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But he favors Putz. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The other lion was the fact that they were poor and Laurie rich, for this made them shy of accepting favors which they could not return. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The solitary woman felt an interest in the ambitious girl, and kindly conferred many favors of this sort both on Jo and the Professor. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It is an accretion of power around a center of influence, cemented by patronage, graft, favors, friendship, loyalties, habits,--a human grouping, a natural pyramid. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If ever I should have any little favors to ask of any man, I will ask him at the time. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He favors a true aristocracy as the best means of produ cing a race of supermen. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• If she favors you, love her. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In the war of extermination that was ever before the great naturalist's eye in South America, what is it that favors a species' survival or determine s its extinction? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I'm as proud as Lucifer, but such favors from such people don't burden me, and I accepted gratefully. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• If he never said a cutting word about Mr. Casaubon again and left off receiving favors from him, it would clearly be permissible to hate him the more. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• If you were to renounce this patronage and these favors, I suppose you would do so with some faint hope of one day repaying what you have already had. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I don't like favors, they oppress and make me feel like a slave. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

Edited by Lancelot