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Sentences starting with favor

Favor and good-will were poured forth upon me, and wherever I might go I was met with the highest respect. [10]

Sentences ending with favor

I appeal to you to grant me this favor. [5]
To Louise he wrote: "It is beautiful to hear him talk when his heart is full of thankfulness for some manifestation of the Divine favor. [5]
Rameses loads Mena with marks of his favor. [10]
He pays you wages, and the first time his daughter comes in here you refuse to do her a favor. [9]
For more than two months Cauchon had been raking and scraping everywhere for any odds and ends of evidence or suspicion or conjecture that might be usable against Joan, and carefully suppressing all evidence that came to hand in her favor. [5]
That would disarm Tull's ugly hints and put you in favor. [13]
At last I took out my portfolio and wrote these words on a sheet:-- "If Mrs. Clive will consent to a meeting with Mr. David Ritchie, he will deem it a favor. [9]
But Philippus has told me that even a woman may be allowed to work with the same purpose.--And now let me beg of you never to call me anything but Paula--you will not refuse me this favor. [10]
He felt grateful to the stranger, who had given him, an opportunity of conferring a favor. [6]
The wind's bound to fetch around and set in our favor. [5]

Short sentences using favor

No--rose in favor of it. [5]
I resign in his favor. [5]
A great favor! [10]
What favor! [10]

Sentences containing favor two or more times

I have no right to say all the members of the Republican party are in favor of this, nor to say that as a party they are in favor of it. [7]
Harris argued in favor of his proposition against mine, I argued in favor of mine and against his. [5]
I am in favor of everything everybody is in favor of. [5]
He says I am in favor of making all the States of this Union uniform in all their internal regulations; that in all their domestic concerns I am in favor of making them entirely uniform. [7]
Four only, as against three, spoke in his favor, and this his haughty spirit could so ill endure that never an Im Hoff dared cross his threshold, though one and another often strove to win back his favor. [10]

More example sentences with the word favor in them

You Democrats, and your candidate, in the main are in favor of laying down in advance a platform--a set of party positions--as a unit, and then of forcing the people, by every sort of appliance, to ratify them, however unpalatable some of them may be. [7]
I have told you his father was a freedman of the former prefect Claudius Balbillus, and by the favor of the Roman his father rose and grew rich. [10]
And how they would fly around when he wanted a basin of water, a gourd of the same, or a light for his pipe!--but they would instantly insult a passenger if he so far forgot himself as to crave a favor at their hands. [5]
This peculiarity, however, worked in favor of the old resident. [6]
The story has won the attention and enjoyed the favor of a limited class of readers, and if it still continues to interest others of the same tastes and habits of thought I can ask nothing more of it. [6]
Anna Mikhaylovna, practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself and her son. [2]
Please favor me with an answer at your earliest convenience. [7]
In it you will find a brief argument in favor of conventions--and although I wrote it myself I will say to you that it is conclusive upon the point and can not be reasonably answered. [7]
Joshua knew to whom he and Ephraim owed this favor, and received it with grateful joy. [10]
The four Fs which he had advised his master to heed in his wooing--Family, Figure, Favor, and Fortune--he no longer deemed the right touch-tones. [10]
We never know when fortune is trying to favor us. [5]
As the days went by it seemed plain that he was growing in favor with Louise,--not sweepingly so, but yet perceptibly, he fancied. [5]
But even if we fail to technically restore the compromise, it is still a great point to carry a popular vote in favor of the restoration. [7]
In short, he was informed in so many words that every tie that bound her to him must be broken in favor of another, and the hypocritical regret with which she sought to cover up the hard facts only made him doubly indignant. [10]
I supposed I was doing you a benevolence; but I begin to think that I am the party that wants a favor done. [5]
All my political warfare has been in favor of the teachings that come forth from these sacred walls. [7]
If you can wait till then--I mean without discomfort, without inconvenience--it will be a large accommodation to me; but I will not allow you to do this favor if it will discommode you. [5]
There was one very strong argument in favor of this idea--namely, that the quantity of coin he had seen was too vast to be real. [5]
That unanimity and variety of censure in the morning papers, combined with the attractiveness of the thing itself, has cleared every stand in the city, and now if the favor of the country press doesn't turn the tide against us, our fortune's made. [8]
Will you do us the favor to reply at once, at your earliest convenience. [5]
Keep it out until a vote is taken, and a vote in favor of it cannot be got in any population of forty thousand on earth, who have been drawn together by the ordinary motives of emigration and settlement. [7]
It is a tremendous favor to ask, and I expect you to refuse and would be ashamed to expect you to do otherwise. [5]
Miss Millicent Skinner, too, was in a like mysterious way compelled to abdicate her high place in favor of Cynthia, and Wetherell was utterly unable to explain how this miracle was accomplished. [9]
It is as to whether, and how far, duties on imports shall be adjusted to favor home production in the home market, that controversy begins. [7]
N-now I come to think of it, I hev a little favor to ask of you. [9]
I am responsible to the Third House only, and I hope to be permitted to make it exceedingly warm for that body, without caring whether the sympathies of the public and the Church be enlisted in their favor, and against myself, or not. [5]
They are appealing to the detestable old superstitious presumption in favor of whatever is nauseous and noxious as being good for the sick. [3]
Every one attached to the court knew in what high favor the artist was held by His Majesty, and therefore hastened to win his good-will by attentions and presents. [10]
Remember, too, that to shew mercy is better than to shed blood; the sword killeth, but the favor of the ruler bringeth joy and happiness. [10]
He had come to put the last touches to the works he had begun, and proposed to make a fresh attempt to win the favor of the man whom he now knew to be the Emperor. [10]
Hires a lawyer to present the arguments in favor of the view that she was another man's daughter. [6]
He didn't seem to know any way to do a person a favor except by killing him or making a lunatic out of him. [5]
March was inclined to hope that if the first number had been made too good for the country at large, the more enlightened taste of metropolitan journalism would invite a compensating favor for it in New York. [8]
Now, in relation to his inference that I am in favor of a general consolidation of all the local institutions of the various States. [7]
On Mark's return to Hartford, Wood received a letter asking if he would do Mark a great favor by printing something he had written, which he did not care to entrust to the ordinary printer. [5]
I will try to exert a little influence in favor of the bill. [5]
I want you to do me a favor. [5]
I have both to crave a favor and offer counsel. [10]
If it prove to be true, as is probable, that the people of Utah are in open rebellion to the United States, then Judge Douglas is in favor of repealing their territorial organization, and attaching them to the adjoining States for judicial purposes. [7]
There is this to be said in favor of the Bourbons: that a dry time never had occurred while they reigned,--a statement in which all good Catholics in Sorrento will concur. [4]
Andrew..." she said timidly after a moment's silence, "I have a great favor to ask of you. [2]
Yet I recognize thy willingness to yield thy dignity to me as a praiseworthy deed, since I know how hard it is for a man to resign power, especially in favor of a younger one whom he does not love. [10]
My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the county; and, if elected, they will have conferred a favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate. [7]
I live only through thee, I am of no worth but through thee, and by thy favor, my king, my lord, my father! [10]
She gravely goes through the motions of reluctantly granting admission to the applicant as a favor to him. [5]
We have got three or four months to do our work in,--a fair field and no favor. [6]
Possibly because he thought that he discovered in me a talent for poetic expression, he showed me unusual favor, even read his own verses aloud to me, and set me special tasks in verse-writing, which he criticised with me when I had finished. [10]
He felt as though Heaven had wrought a miracle in his favor. [10]
In this way those articles of the Materia Medica which had nothing but loathsomeness to recommend them have been gradually dropped, and are not like to obtain any general favor again with civilized communities. [3]
In return for this slight favor the manager sent an invitation for Mark Twain to come and see the play --to be present on the opening night, as it were, at his (the manager's) expense. [5]
There was one thing at least which might favor his projects, and which, at any rate, would serve to amuse him. [6]
We've done that Thing a favor. [5]
This was all they were obliged to do, and the ayes and noes show that there were thirty-six who voted it down, against ten who voted in favor of it. [7]
When you compare these achievements of his with the achievements of really great men who exist in history, the comparison, I believe, is in his favor. [5]
Three fourths of them were called by the defendant Morgan, but no matter, their testimony invariably went in favor of the plaintiff Hyde. [5]
Leave it to them to punish the criminal, for Osiris withdraws his favor from those who choose the fiend for their ally. [10]
Ursula had become the wife of the Marchese Anselmo Giustiniani, by special favor of the great council, and had come with him to Egypt, whither he was sent by the Republic as Consul. [10]
It was not the state to favor sound, calm observation. [3]
Some who attain the position of classics are subject to variations in popular and even in scholarly favor or neglect. [4]
I would favor the passage of a law on this subject which might not be very easily evaded. [7]
On the contrary, the news I bring gives me reason to expect much from his favor. [10]
Can he withhold the legislation which his neighbor needs for the enjoyment of a right which is fixed in his favor in the Constitution of the United States which he has sworn to support? [7]
The possession of the least organized naval force would stimulate a generous ambition in the republic, and the confidence which we should manifest by furnishing it would win forbearance and favor toward the colony from all civilized nations. [7]
The fact that the individuals composing our Supreme Court have, in an official capacity, decided in favor of the constitutionality of the Bank, would, in my mind, seem a sufficient answer to this. [7]
Your observation that the horse-chestnut as an article of commerce is steadily gaining in favor is simply calculated to destroy this journal. [5]
In regard to the Homestead law, I have to say that, in so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels, so that every poor man may have a home. [7]
It was exactly the favor which he had done me, about a quarter of a century before, in that same spot, the first time I ever steamed out of the port of New Orleans. [5]
And, speaking generally, the evidence of dying men in favor of any belief is to be received with great caution. [6]
As one of the Council, Smith would undoubtedly favor their going. [4]
Finding himself in the company of Napoleon, whose identity he had easily and surely recognized, Lavrushka was not in the least abashed but merely did his utmost to gain his new master's favor. [2]
In this case the common end is the maintenance of the Union, and among the means to secure that end such will, through the election, is most clearly declared in favor of such Constitutional amendment. [7]
The Judge says that though he made this charge, Toombs got up and declared there was not a man in the United States, except the editor of the Union, who was in favor of the doctrines put forth in that article. [7]
He, however, declared that this day was under the special favor of the Saints, and that no evil could in any wise befall him. [10]
My colleague admits that the platform declares against the constitutionality of a general system of improvements, and that General Cass indorses the platform; but he still thinks General Cass is in favor of some sort of improvements. [7]
Each Republican knew that the charge was a slander as to himself at least, and was not inclined by it to cast his vote in your favor. [7]
Now she thought that she might freely show him that his favor was a happiness to her. [10]
I write for that magazine all the time, and so do many abler men, and if I can get these portraits into universal favor, it is all I ask; the reading-matter will take care of itself. [5]
I will remember that in their favor. [10]
I'm not saying that if the company sent it I should refuse it because the others had been treated unjustly; but to take it as a favor, like a beggar! [4]
Bent-Anat shall know that her father, and king, encourages your suit; but pray too to the Hathors, that they may influence Bent-Anat's heart in your favor, for to her decision we must both submit. [10]
To tell her that he, Caesar, had found a wife after his own heart, and to win her favor and consent. [10]
You will find that all the arguments in favor of kingcraft were of this class; they always bestrode the necks of the people not that they wanted to do it, but because the people were better off for being ridden. [7]
He expressed his thanks in a few low chords overflowing with yearning and passion; then all was still, for the warder had forbidden him to sing or play at night and he dared not risk losing the man's favor. [10]
The telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, the typewriter, the sewing-machine, and all the thousand willing and handy servants of steam and electricity were working their way into favor. [5]
All this I suppose he understands I am in favor of doing. [7]
He threatens to supplant me in the king's favor, and I am determined, let him plot and intrigue as he likes, that you shall marry Gaumata. [10]
They are good stuff, too; they are above the agricultural average of intelligence, and they come without any inherited prejudices in favor of hoary ignorances made sacred by long descent. [5]
Will you--an energetic student, you--a man of powerful intellect, zealous in your duty, and in favor with the gods--will you pine like a deserted maiden or spring from the Leucadian rock like love-sick Sappho in the play while the spectators shake with laughter? [10]
It was not strange that the idea, thus planted, should grow in Mr. Price's favor as he proceeded. [9]
Come, you must strain a point in my favor. [5]
In the border States, so called,--in fact, the middle States,--there are those who favor a policy which they call "armed neutrality"; that is, an arming of those States to prevent the Union forces passing one way, or the disunion the other, over their soil. [7]
I wish to stand erect before the country, as well as Judge Douglas, on this question of judicial authority; and therefore I add something to the authority in favor of my own position. [7]
At all the stables the driver is king; all the people on the route are deferential to him; they are happy if he will crack a joke with them, and take it as a favor if he gives them better than they send. [4]
Those people already speak with such high favor, admiration, of my farming, and they say that I am the only man that has ever come to that region who could make two blades of grass grow where only three grew before. [5]
Go to your sons, you anxious, troubled fathers, and assure them of my mercy and favor. [10]
But there was something beside all this, that had helped to win Cambyses' favor for the Athenian. [10]
It is a small favor to ask,--said the divinity-student,--and passed the sugar to me. [6]
It so happens, singularly enough, that I never stood opposed to a decision of the Supreme Court till this, on the contrary, I have no recollection that he was ever particularly in favor of one till this. [7]
Now, it is singular enough, if you will carefully read that passage over, that I did not say that I was in favor of anything in it. [7]
Poor old Uncle Silas--why, it's pitiful, him trying to curry favor that way--so hard pushed and poor, and yet hiring that useless Jubiter Dunlap to please his ornery brother. [5]

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