As respects our general views of men and things there was scarcely a point in common, for he has few salient qualities, though he is liberal; but his gusto for natural subjects is strong, and his favorite among all my books is "The Prairie," which, you know, is filled with wild beasts.

According to Blackstone, even the disabilities of the wife were for the most part intended for her protection and benefit, and he adds: "So great a favorite is the female sex of the laws of England!"

But his real favorite was an oak tree, nearly twenty years of age and already sturdy, which stood in the centre of the lawn, where he had planted it with Marianne, who had held the slender sapling in position while he plied his spade on the day when they had founded their domain of Chantebled.

Her favorites were the daughters of good La Chance families who at seventeen had "finished" at Miss Home's Select School for Young Ladies, and who came out in society not later than eighteen.

The King was ruled by favorites; and these favorites were either bigots in religion, like Archbishop Laud, or were tyrannical or unscrupulous in their efforts to sustain the King in despotic measures and crush popular agitations, like the Earl of Strafford, or were men of pleasure and vanity like the Duke of Buckingham.

She preserved for him and for every member of his family a grateful affection; but her special favorite was James, the Doctor's brother, who was a little younger than she, and who repaid this partiality with hearty good-will and esteem.

His favorites are Alexander the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Washington.

This favorite of God is Faust, "a solitary, brooding youth, renouncing all passion except the passion for truth, entirely living in truth, entirely absorbed in it."

" Of the ten children in the family, the favorite was a black-haired, dark-skinned little fellow called Daniel.

Sometimes a foreman will play a favorite, and, as any fellow who's been to the races knows, favorites ain't always winners.

But the world's favorite was Spinning: "Like a blind spinner in the sun, I tread my days; I know that all the threads will run Appointed ways; I know each day will bring its task, And, being blind, no more I ask.

Of quadrupeds, the greatest favorite was the wild boar,the chief dish of a grand coena,coming whole upon the table; and the practised gourmand pretended to distinguish by the taste from what part of Italy it came.

Marjorie's favorites were: TO DESIRE TO KNOWTO KNOW, IS CURIOSITY.

Alfonso XI of Castile, whose "favorite" was Leonora de Guzman.Donizetti, La Favorita (an opera, 1842).

I have read all the "Books of Blessing" save Gertrude and her Catbut though I like them all very much, my favorite is still "The Prince in Disguise."

Those favorites were Lord Berkeley, brother of the governor of Virginia and the duke's own governor in his youth, and Sir George Carteret, then the treasurer of the admiralty, who had been governor of the island of Jersey, which he had gallantly defended against the forces of Cromwell.

Alfonso XI of Castile, whose "favorite" was Leonora de Guzman.Donizetti, La Favorita (an opera, 1842).

His favorite among English humorists was Sterne, who has a share of these same qualities.

My especial favorite in the volume was the poem Divided.