Favourites

Examples

• 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