She writes in a lively and pleasing manner; her productions are distinguished for their elevated moral tone; and they can scarcely fail to become favorites with the public.
They chatted and laughed and dived for fruit and decked the hair of their favorites with gay flowers, or cracked nuts with their knife handles and fed them to their lady loves.
Several new characters are introduced, and one at least will prove a not unworthy rival of the favorites among the Terrace girls.
Roy and Dudley were welcomed eagerly as though perhaps at times they were inclined to assume patronizing and masterful airs; yet their extreme generosity and love for all country sport made them general favorites with the villagers.
Those varieties which are grown as dwarfs in Europe are naturally the ones which are favorites there.
The special favorites of the man who owns the garden should be chosen, no matter whether they are popular or not.
Peer of France, field-marshal, ambassador, the Prince Jules de Polignac was one of the favorites of the Restoration.
He was not known to have eitherfavorites or mistresses.
But history has no warrant to tamper with right and wrong, or to brighten the character of its favorites by diminishing one shade of the abhorrence which attaches to their vices.
Sidney Graham was one of those favorites of society who are allowed Touchstone's license.
The two rivals went off arm in arm, watched by an admiring throng of cadets, for they were both great favorites with their schoolmates.
There was a panic in the stocks which were his favorites the next day, and they fell out of sight.
It is a commentary upon the fickleness of popular favor that the time was so short before these universal favorites dropped out of popular attention and recollection.
In 1571, there was another wholesale execution, in which several of Ivan's latest favorites were victims.
The grievances of forty years were mingled in his revolt; and the rising generation was fatigued by the endless prospect of a reign, whose favorites and maxims were of other times.
The coach has a few favorites and he can't see anything that any one else does.
Their rupture had come about as a result of Hemerlingue's marriage with one of the favorites of the former bey.
Moreover court favorites are always prepared, by many celebrated precedents, for such overwhelming falls from grace.
The same, surrounded by his favorites and satellites, all jubilant with the thought that Lipski's bill will triumph, and that the fall of the princess is at hand.
Good poets are called the favorites of the muses, as prosperous men are called the favorites of fortune, because both are supposed to receive these gifts without laboring for them.
One of de favorites was: "Miss Ca'line gal, Yes Ma'am Did you see dem buzzards?
My other favorites are: "Must Jesus bear This Cross Alone.
Virtue without success Is a fair picture shown by an ill light; But lucky men are favorites of heaven: All own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.
Lucky men are favorites of heaven, simply because they have been endowed with that charming blindness which keeps them from seeing when they are whipped in the battle of life.
Add to all this, it is one of the easiest plants to cultivate, as it will grow and flower in almost any soil or climate, requiring but little care and attention as compared with many other favorites of the garden.
No bed but what can be made brilliant with these favorites, for there is no situation or soil in which some of these favorites will not flourish.
All the households kept by the Turkish officials and their favorites swarm with negroes of the various types.
My method of campaign was to ascertain the name of one of the favorites of the Turkish officials, to locate her residence and then put Kim to work.
You will find out the favoritesof the high officials and officers, especially the nationality of these women.
The next week I found lodgings in the very center of the district of court residences and began to seek out the haunts and places of rendezvous of demi-mondaines, favorites and hangers-on of the Turkish officials.
A series of romances containing several of the old favorites in the field of historical fiction, replete with powerful romances of love and diplomacy that excel in thrilling and absorbing interest.
Nero then tried to divert attention from the event and to cover up his crime by showering presents, houses, and estates on the favorites of the palace.
He was so displeased with him that he singled him out for immediate execution; but one of the emperor’s favorites whispered to him that he need not take the trouble to extinguish an expiring lamp, Seneca was in such poor health at the time.
These old garden favorites have been neglected of late years, primarily because the hollyhock rust has been so prevalent, destroying the plants or making them unsightly.
These trees have always been favoriteswith plant lovers, as they have very distinctive forms and other characteristics.
They are favorites everywhere, for their brilliant spring and summer bloom; and they are easy to grow.
The winter-flowering carnations have become prime favoriteswith all flower lovers, and a collection of winter house-plants seems incomplete without them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "favorites" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
