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Sentences ending with preference

These sat on the bed by preference. [9]
It was, however, suggested, in a well-written anonymous article which appeared in the village paper, that it was desirable to follow the general lead of the testator's apparent preference. [6]
While this charming spectacle was exhibited at the beach, afternoon service was going on in the tabernacle, and King sought that in preference. [4]
After all I shall be governed by your preference. [7]
Indeed, in many respects, they have given us the preference. [10]
She loved the place, and wished us to share her preference. [14]
What they wanted in the family was a Duke; and a Duke they were determined to have; though they confessed that next to the Duke the lawyer had their preference. [5]
I don't think I have any preference. [5]
Personally, I should have no particular preference. [9]
Where however the German k has the same worth as the Roman c I have adopted it in preference. [10]

More example sentences with the word preference in them

After that, I was just as much at home in that century as I could have been in any other; and as for preference, I wouldn't have traded it for the twentieth. [5]
An alarming symptom was his preference for the warmth of a furnace-register to the lively sparkle of the open woodfire. [4]
It is far too late in this history to pretend that Honora was, by preference, an early riser, and therefore it must have been the excitement caused by her surroundings that made her bathe and dress with alacrity that morning. [9]
He is hungry to be rich, for he is human; but his preference has been for riches in cattle, not in fine clothes and fine houses and gold and diamonds. [5]
Mrs. Cooke, I think, had a secret preference for Germantown. [9]
He began to think upon ways and means to meet this sudden preference of the Queen, made sharply manifest as he waited in the ante-chamber, by a summons to the refugee to enter the Queen's apartments. [11]
From all sides they offered me what I required; but I gave the preference to Theocritus, on account of his height. [10]
To give him such space would be unbusiness-like, and the extension of a preference which would be unjust to the rest of the public. [4]
The velvet gown should now decide whether he gave the preference to her or to pretty Elspet Zohrer--of course, only in the dance--for she would never have accepted him as a serious suitor. [10]
Your answer, just received, expresses the preference on your part that I should make an open order for the modification, which I very cheerfully do. [7]
Our active practitioners read these by preference over almost everything else. [3]
Although in a private letter or conversation you will express your preference that Kansas shall be free, you would vote for no man for Congress who would say the same thing publicly. [7]
She gave the preference to the flowers which had been her mother's favourites, but the others were also used. [10]
Each man's own preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him. [5]
He wrote by preference in what I have ventured to call the normal respiratory measure,--octosyllabic verse, in which one common expiration is enough and not too much for the articulation of each line. [6]
He would of preference have stayed in the Intendance had he known that pitfalls and traps were at every footstep. [11]
She had no preference for place. [14]
He had a preference for a pistol, which was an extravagance, for we hadn't enough between us to hire a pistol. [5]
But the circumstances of the present case--I being a democrat by birth and preference, and an aristocrat by inheritance and relish--" The earl stopped suddenly, his frame stiffened, and he began to stare speechless through the curtainless window. [5]
The very birds of the air choose their mates from preference and inclination; but this detestable system of lot! [4]
He bade her not vex herself at all about him, and not to wait until he became Sir Duke Lawless, but to give preference to seniority and begin with the title at once; which he has reason since to believe that she did. [11]
Claridge Pasha would never have been in his present position, if the noble lord had not listened to the enemies of Claridge Pasha and of this country, in preference to those who know and hold the truth as I tell it here to-day. [11]
This pleasing picture might perhaps leave some impression on the soul of the young criminal, in whom a preference for good could still, though rarely, be fanned to a flame. [10]
Indeed, when a man wanted to forget himself quickly he drank one of these cordials, in preference to the white whisky so commonly imbibed in the parishes. [11]
Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him. [5]
He always wore his hair short, had a preference for striped clothes, and died lamented by the government. [5]
Gyges had shared his father's preference for Greek art and artists. [10]
The preference for him over Mr. Hunt or Mr. Gentry is that, up to date--he has a living position in the South, while they have not. [7]
In spite of her frankly expressed preference for me she had an elusiveness that made a continual appeal to my imagination. [9]
Zoe had gone heart-whole and with no especial preference for any young man, until the particular person came, the Man from Outside. [11]
Yet I might have returned to Nancy if something had not occurred which I would have thought unbelievable: she began to show a marked preference for Ralph Hambleton. [9]
Even Louis, who had not wholly given up venesection, used now and then to order that a patient suffering from headache should be bled in the foot, in preference to any other part. [6]
Several men have given their opinion as to the distance of the steamboat Carson, and I suppose if one should go and measure that distance you would believe him in preference to all of them. [7]
Brought by H. Frederic Sprowle, youngest son of the Colonel,--the H. of course standing for the paternal Hezekiah, put in to please the father, and reduced to its initial to please the mother, she having a marked preference for Frederic. [6]
Take no man for friendship's sake; but, all things being equal, take the man you know, take your friend, in preference to the stranger. [5]
Kottbus was not far away, and knowing that I was backward in the science that Dr. Boltze, the mathematician, taught, she gave him the preference over the heads of the other boarding-schools in the Mark. [10]
When the others drink I like to help; otherwise I remain dry, by habit and preference. [5]
What a great book one could make, with such aids, and how many would fling it down, and take up anything in preference, provided only that it were short enough; even this slight record, for want of something shorter! [6]
Then there was Bess, in Kingston, the relict of a customs official, Captain Paul relating with ingenuous gusto a midnight brush with a lieutenant of his Majesty, in which the fair widow figured, and showed her preference, too. [9]
Sally wanted to believe that Tracy's preference was disinterested; so she was always applying little tests of one sort or another, hoping and expecting that they would bring out evidence which would confirm or fortify her belief. [5]
It had, however, been the means of his premature retirement from England, for his chief at the Embassy had a preference for an Oriental entourage. [11]
It seemed to be his preference that his son should introduce them, for he came upstairs with Conrad, and they had fairly made acquaintance before Fulkerson joined them. [8]
It is an astonishing abdication of individual preference. [4]
Mr. Ball was an agitator by temperament and a promoter by preference. [9]
One must not allow himself to be flattered into an overestimate of his powers because he gets many letters expressing a peculiar attraction towards his books, and a preference of them to those with which he would not have dared to compare his own. [6]
Taste usually implies a sort of selection; the cultivated taste of which we speak is merely a comparison, no longer an individual preference or appreciation, but only a reference to the conventional and accepted standard. [4]
He states that "the hens have frequently great preference to a particular peafowl. [1]

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