1673 examples of preference in sentences

Sets forth the folly, the inconvenience, the impolicy of KEEPING, and the preference of MARRIAGE, upon the foot of their own principles, as libertines.

But as to what may be the consequence respecting yourself, respecting a young lady of your talents, from the preference you are suspected to give to a libertine, I would have you, my dear cousin, consider what that may be.

What sort of pride must his be, which can dispense with inclination and preference in the lady whom he adores?What must that love Love, Sir! who talks of love?Was not merit the thing we were talking of?Have I ever professed, have I ever required of you professions of a passion of that nature?But there is no end of these debatings; each so faultless, each so full of self I do not think myself faultless, Madam:but

Can you suggest a motive for this procedure, or can you think of any circumstances which might lead a person to adopt this method by preference?"

They contemn the calling of their father, and will, nine times in ten, marry a mechanic in preference to a farmer.

Her vanity is interested in punishing her rival for having obtained the preference.

If she loved him, then as soon as she leaves him, it is a sure proof that she loves him no longer, in which case what glory is there for you in such a preference?

There is also another case where you may be preferred, without that preference being any more flattering.

Probably none is better than another, but my own preference has always been for that stage which I happen to be doing at the time.

If the question is a place for a holiday, all the artifices of my family cannot extract from me a decided preference for any place in particular.

They jostled each other for preference, they clamoured for notice as I have seen the dock labourers clamouring for a job at the London docks.

There can be no surprise in store for the student acquainted with the vagaries of strategists who are influenced in war by political in preference to military requirements.

They play preference.

And what else, certainly not only preference? SHISHGÁLEV.

That's the truth, just preference.

The first objects that assume a distinct presence before me, as I look far back into the blank of my infancy, are my mother, with her pretty air and youthful shape, and Peggotty, my old nurse, with no shape at all, and with cheeks and arms so red and hard that I wondered the birds didn't peck her in preference to apples.

As you perceive, he has had the education and other advantages of a gentleman without being conscious of marked result, such as a decided preference for any particular ideas or functions: his mind is furnished as hotels are, with everything for occasional and transient use.

She was, as we have said, before her time in her appreciation of what was noble and superior, in preference to that which gives to caste alone, its supremacy.

And in the same spirit and for the same cogent reasons that the holy monk Lewis prohibited the Bible in all decent families;or if they must have something of that kind, would propose in preference Tirante the White!

Her father's preference was for her, just as her mother was drawn towards the son by natural affinity.

One would have thought that Duchess Eleanora would have regarded with special delight and love the son who most resembled herself in appearance and disposition; but perhaps the reason for her preference may be gathered by looking into the happy, radiant, laughing face of her bonnie little son, as painted by Angelo Bronzino at the Uffizi in Florence!

DEAR SIR, Your conversation with me respecting the publication of your MS. led me to infer that you had given me the preference, and certainly not that you had already submitted it to the greatest publishers in London, who had declined to engage in it.

That your idea, derived from conversation with me, of my giving you the preference to all other Publishers, was perfectly correct.

But why this preference for the flat-footed?

They were a polished race, speaking a sonorous, vocalic language, so bold in war that their boast was that they had never been defeated, and yet their religious rites were almost bloodless, and their preference was for peace.

1673 examples of  preference  in sentences