1 The animals distrusted Pilkington, as a human being, but greatly preferred him to Frederick, whom they both feared and hated.
2 Fair hair was unjustly preferred to dark.
3 But some preferred to sit on the ground.
4 On being shown her chamber, she was so dreadfully sensible of its comforts as to suggest the inference that she would have preferred to pass the night on the mangle in the laundry.
5 But, daughter or wife, she should be preferred according to her beauty and thy merits.
6 To the surprise of all present, however, the knight thus preferred was nowhere to be found.
7 It twitched her limbs when she didn't want to twitch them, it jerked her spine when she didn't want to jerk upright but preferred to rest comfortably.
8 She preferred the lesser amount which she helped Clifford to make by his writing.
9 Hilda didn't like Michaelis, but she almost preferred him to Clifford.
10 He preferred the radio, which he had installed at some expense, with a good deal of success at last.
11 It had been one of his stunts in the past, to read Racine in the real French grand manner, but he was rusty now, and a little self-conscious; he really preferred the loudspeaker.
12 He had been much in London, and had more liveliness and gallantry than Edmund, and must, therefore, be preferred; and, indeed, his being the eldest was another strong claim.
13 Fanny in those early days had preferred her to Susan; and when the news of her death had at last reached Mansfield, had for a short time been quite afflicted.
14 She could do nothing but glide in quietly and look at him; but when able to talk or be talked to, or read to, Edmund was the companion he preferred.
15 Sir Walter had at first thought more of London; but Mr Shepherd felt that he could not be trusted in London, and had been skilful enough to dissuade him from it, and make Bath preferred.