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• He preferred to walk. (9)
• Lucy preferred to know. (10)
• The duchess preferred to walk. (10)
• She preferred to hide her head. (10)
• We vowed we preferred the poet. (10)
• He preferred to have it unspoken. (10)
• Adrian preferred not to go in alone. (10)
• Lady Ormont preferred the Continent. (10)
• I preferred a gipsy life to Riversley. (10)
• Colonel Campbell rather preferred an olive. (4)
• Westover preferred not to meet his overture. (9)
• I always preferred the church, as I still do. (4)
• She would have preferred to pursue the game. (10)
• He would have preferred a positive sum annually. (10)
• Herbert preferred to try the skill of Mrs. Crickledon. (10)
• Very likely he might have preferred not doing anything. (9)
• She was a nice lady, and he preferred her good opinion. (10)
• If there were anything in that, he preferred not to hear it. (8)
• His temper would have preferred to buffet the angry weather. (10)
• It was the last time, he said, the request would be preferred. (19)
• I should have preferred an enthusiasm a trifle more progressive. (10)
• Diana preferred a hard pillow, and usually carried her own about. (10)
• He, for his part, preferred old quarters: comfort versus grandeur. (10)
• Clara had evidently singled me out and preferred me to all the rest. (6)
• He knew which actors he preferred, and which actresses, better still. (9)
• After all, Miss Triscoe did not go with March; she preferred to sleep. (9)
• Beethoven is said to have preferred him to all other pianists of his time. (3)
• Vittoria thanked him, but stated humbly that she preferred to travel alone. (10)
• He preferred to talk about the little matters of common incident and experience. (9)
• No, he preferred to be sarcastic upon friend Horace, and he had the worst of it. (10)
• She had an extraordinary love of the sea, yet she preferred soldiers to sailors. (10)
• I could have turned my husband from this black path; I preferred to dream and sing. (10)
• But it was odd, that Skepsey always preferred his appeal for help to Colney Durance. (10)
• However, Beethoven admired them, and is said to have preferred them to those of Mozart. (3)
• Now, too, he would have preferred loneliness; but he did not want to wound the physician. (12)
• Still he had no delight in shuffling a puppetry; he would have preferred automatic figures. (10)
• Jombateeste preferred the kitchen for the naps he took after supper before his early bedtime. (9)
• The Englishman preferred to look upon the preacher as guided by a purely abstract love of beauty. (8)
• The best he had known in Ireland and in France, preferred the charms of society to bold adventure. (10)
• Cast-iron bases are preferred to the wooden one, when the column is to set upon a masonry porch floor. (17)
• It was not to oblige Jane Fairfax therefore that he would have preferred the society of William Larkins. (4)
• Being a stranger to the jealousy of men, he took the soft assurance that he was preferred above them all. (10)
• He was the first to promulgate the rule that contrary motion is always to be preferred to similar or oblique. (3)
• He had choice among the pick of women: the daughter of the Old Buccaneer was preferred by the wiseacre Coelebs. (10)
• He preferred to loiter in this mood, and he was meantime much more comfortable than he had been for a great while. (9)
• It came to this: admitting that he had no claims, he declared it to be unbearable for him to see another preferred. (10)
• But commonly be preferred to have me sit down with him there among the mute witnesses of the larger part of his life. (9)
• Jombateeste was in the barn, which he preferred to the house, and Frank Whitwell had gone to church over at the Huddle. (9)
• In the later life of the family, they preferred the provincial state of splendid squires to Court and political honours. (10)
• Alvan preferred the lichen-draped tree to the sunny flower, it was evident, for never a letter from Alvan had come to her. (10)
• Richard would have preferred not to laugh, but his dignity gave way to his sense of the ludicrous, and he let fly a shout. (10)
• If he is not the master British essayist of the later nineteenth century, I really cannot imagine who is to be preferred to him. (2)
• He would, perhaps, be sending us a letter to say that he preferred to break away from the mother country and establish a republic. (10)
• He would, perhaps, be sending us a letter to say that he preferred to break away from the mother country and establish a republic. (22)
• I really liked Bloomfield better; for one thing, his poem was written in the heroic decasyllabics which I preferred to any other verse. (9)
• In that elect company I was silent, partly because I was conscious of my youthful inadequacy, and partly because I preferred to listen. (9)
• The word for the performance of those duties is Toryism: a word with an older flavour than Conservatism, and Mr. Tuckham preferred it. (10)
• She fluttered before him in either aspect; and another perplexity now was to distinguish within himself which was the aspect he preferred. (10)
• Corey understood something about horses, though in a passionless way, and he would have preferred to talk business when obliged to talk horse. (9)
• He rather preferred the East Side to the West Side lines, because they offered more nationalities, conditions, and characters to his inspection. (9)
• She preferred the calmer, the truer pleasure of seeing him modestly take lessons in the nomenclature of weeds, herbs, grasses, by hedge and ditch. (10)
• Apparently he would have preferred to watch her dark downcast eyelashes in silence under sanction of his air of abstract meditation and the melancholy superinducing it. (10)

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