Favourite

Examples

• I fancy I am rather a favourite; he took notice of my gown. Jane Austen. Emma.
• His hat presents at the rims a peculiar appearance of a glistening nature, as if it had been a favourite snail-promenade. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I am going to be a favourite: preferred before papa soon, I daresay. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I must inform you that she has always been my favourite. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• We know who is the favourite there; not I, I'm sure. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• One of his favourite amusements, we are told, was the expensive one of rolling elephants down precipitous places in order to watch their sufferings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Don't you think he would rather have his favourite old pupil near him, than anybody else? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But Ayesha, the favourite wife of the Prophet, had always been jealous of Fatima and hostile to Ali. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Colonel Berkeley and I conversed on many subjects; but there was one which was a favourite with us both--plays. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Had _Chambers's Journal_ existed in those days, it would certainly have formed Miss Helstone's and Farren's favourite periodical. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Frank Churchill is, indeed, the favourite of fortune. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It surpassed any complications of intrigue in her favourite Pigault le Brun. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• To whom entered Mrs Gowan, with her favourite green fan, which softened the light on the spots of bloom. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• This was her favourite work, as it required the least exertion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But after it was over, she went quietly round to one or two old favourites, and talked to them a little. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Tragedies deep and dire were the chief favourites. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The conscience of the woman was troubled; she began to think that the deaths of her favourites was a judgment from heaven to chastise her partiality. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• God, he taught, was no bargainer; there were no chosen people and no favourites in the Kingdom of Heaven. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I am sure you will like them; indeed, you DO like them, you know, very much already, and so does my mother; and they are such favourites with Harry! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• My two venerable favourites, Mr. Helstone and Mr. Yorke, it is true, are fine old beaus, infinitely better than any of the stupid young ones. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But how far this might be applicable to our courts, and favourites, and ministers of state, my master said I could best determine. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• It must be a justice that has no favourites and knows no standards but the equal rights of the several peoples concerned. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• NOW especially there cannot bebut however, you and Marianne were always great favourites. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Pesca was one of her especial favourites and his wildest eccentricities were always pardonable in her eyes. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Editor: Martin