Preferring

Examples

• He had been to the Opera, and knew the merits of the principal actors, preferring Mr. Kean to Mr. Kemble. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I shall be too busy for whist; I shall have two parishes, said the Vicar, preferring not to discuss the virtues of that game. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Once, upon his preferring such an accusation, I turned upon him--I rose against him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It was not a fashionable place, but even among the pleasant people there, the girls made few friends, preferring to live for one another. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• For the present Lord Steyne lives at Naples, preferring the view of the Bay and Capri and Vesuvius to the dreary aspect of the wall in Gaunt Square. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Several hundred refused to sign their paroles, preferring to be sent to the North as prisoners to being sent back to fight again. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It is painful and difficult to decide when we find two claimants thus directly in opposition to each other, and mutually preferring charges of falsehood and fraud. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Mrs Boffin preferring the latter course, they set off one morning in a hired phaeton, conveying the hammer-headed young man behind them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The difference, therefore, of our conduct in preferring the greater number depends not upon our passions, but upon custom, and general rules. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I need not tell you his name, as I did not take it, preferring to be called Crispin until such time as I discovered my real parent. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I detested the trade, preferring almost any other labor; but I was fond of agriculture, and of all employment in which horses were used. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice. Plato. The Republic.
• The preferring of Apollo and his instruments to Marsyas and his instruments is not at all strange, I said. Plato. The Republic.
• Hence arise our common measures of duty, in preferring the one to the other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

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