Favourable

Examples

• Your favourable opinion then, my Precious, does less than justice to Mr Boffin, and more than justice to me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The prohibition of the importation of foreign woollen is equally favourable to the woollen manufacturers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We found the ship in the river, surrounded by a crowd of boats; a favourable wind blowing; the signal for sailing at her mast-head. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• We shall, however, be enabled to discuss what circumstances are most favourable to variation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The entrance of the Grants and Crawfords was a favourable epoch. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Her pulse was much stronger, and every symptom more favourable than on the preceding visit. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Edward was not entirely without hopes of some favourable change in his mother towards him; and on THAT he rested for the residue of their income. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• So would I also wish to change some incidents of it for others more favourable. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Already I foresee a favourable answer to my inquiries. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In this favourable position of affairs, Noah rose from the ground, and pommelled him behind. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• A levelling age is not favourable to deportment. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The expense, too, which is laid out in durable commodities, is favourable not only to accumulation, but to frugality. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The wind, favourable to him, blew so strongly in shore, that we were unable, as we had at first intended, to meet him on his watery road. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Unless favourable variations be inherited by some at least of the offspring, nothing can be effected by natural selection. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• If he committed himself to a decision at all, and if the decision was favourable, the strength of our case was as good as proved from that moment. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You may, in fact, carry a very favourable report of us into Hertfordshire, my dear cousin. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• She held my hand between hers, and at each favourable word gave it a little caressing stroke. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It was a timely chance, favourable to his wish of observing her face and manner when no one else was by. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But if you would return a favourable answer to my offer of myself in marriage, you could draw me to any good--every good--with equal force. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In two short days he has made his way straight into my favourable estimation, and how he has worked the miracle is more than I can tell. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Her report was highly favourable. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The fitting out of old Betty Higden was favourable to this, as keeping Bella engaged and interested, and as occupying the general attention. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This is the most favourable period for travelling in Russia. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The season, the scene, the air, were all favourable to tenderness and sentiment. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• May I again ask you, Miss Hale, from whose account you formed your favourable opinion of him? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I think favourable means of dispersal explain this fact. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• She is repressing symptoms favourable to the fit when she seems to take alarm at something and vanishes down the stairs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But seals would not find on oceanic islands the conditions favourable to their gradual reconversion into a terrestrial form. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• With a little reserve of manner, Emma continued: You mean to return a favourable answer, I collect. Jane Austen. Emma.
• You will see, by its contents, that on your favourable and fatherly consideration of it, depend his future happiness and welfare. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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