The other, who favoured us with a letter no less original, No.
I found my friend standing, and as I was tattling with my former freedom was formally entreated to sit down, but did not stay to be favoured with any further condescensions.
In the confidentially chatty Roundabout Essays we are favoured with frequent introductions to the favourites of their author: no opportunity is lost of making the reader acquainted with his friends.
In this drawing we are favoured with a view of the front of the 'house;' the faces of the men in the orchestra are treated expressively.
Over the succeeding pint, Andrew, in whose veins the Port was merry, favoured his brother with an imitation of Major Strike, and indicated his dislike to that officer.
In return for this speech, the waggoner favoured him with a stare, followed by the exclamation: 'Oh, no!
Secretary of War in 1754, when Charles James, whose cleverness made him a favoured child, was five years old.
Perhaps I am a little jealous lest this new-comer to whose arrival you look forward with so much interest should usurp more of your time and attention than we less-favoured ones can spare.
I observed the crown of his hat, which was of a conical shape, according to the fashion supposed to have been favoured by Guido Fawkes.
As he favoured the Puckeridge hounds, it comes about that most of his landscape backgrounds are views in Hertfordshire.
Galician highways, and their nearest prototypes to-day are harmless peasants adorned with flowing side-whiskers, the style of decoration favoured by respectable and inoffensive British butlers.
If you are favoured you may lift the maces and try to raise the top of the censer--and may succeed in moving the silver mass a few inches from its base.
But a better time, it is hoped, is dawning for thisfavoured land.
Among such favoured nooks probably the next in interest to their loved "garden-orchard" would be found the beauteous vale of Easedale.
God has given a kindlier power To the favoured strawberry-flower.
The scenery of this favoured district, so pleasingly varied as to inspire at once with gladness and awe, to thrill with rapture or to charm into repose, culminates in the transcendent loveliness of the mountain-guarded vale of Grasmere.
I remember, Sir, in some of the first letters with which you favoured me, you mentioned your lady.
Douglas, now Bishop of Salisbury, has favoured me with the following admirable instance from his Lordship's own recollection.
In order to try him, I took down a book, and read while he wrote; and I favoured him, for I read more deliberately than usual.
SIR,--If you imagine that by delaying my answer I intended to shew any neglect of the notice with which you have favoured me, you will neither think justly of yourself nor of me.
Burney has kindly favoured me with the following memorandum, which I take the liberty to insert in his own genuine easy style.
Sir Joshua Reynolds, however, was of a different opinion, and favoured me with the following paper.
MADAM,--You must not think me uncivil in omitting to answer the letter with which you favoured me some time ago.
When you have leisure to think again upon me, let me be favoured with another letter; and another yet, when you have looked into my Dictionary.
I understand the hogshead of claret, which this society was favoured with by our friend the Dean, is nearly out; I think he should be written to, to send another of the same kind.
He does not like Toto; indeed, there is a mutual jealousy between these two favoured pets of ours, and they are always rather glad of an excuse for a good row, such as now ensues.
Fortunately the fog favoured the disturbers of the peace.
Those English adventurers were well favoured and smooth tongued, and when they gaily returned to their sea-girt island they left a long trail behind them of broken hearts--of sorrowing women and forsaken children.
I therefore favoured their mistake, and began with a harsh Catalan accent to talk of the fish of Galicia, and the high duties on salt.
Fortune favoured me when I started on the descent of the Nile.
As I have had so many opportunities of observing the African variety of this world-wide domestic nuisance, less favouredobservers may find a few remarks not out of place.
Boys are notoriously rich in it; with them it takes two forms--the loquacious and the awkward; and in some exceptionally favoured cases the two forms are combined.
Her mansion was long the resort of the most favoured among the religious world.
Sir, with noble kindness, favoured me by post to-day.
In like manner he does not seem to have favoured the metal point upon prepared paper, with which Lionardo produced unrivalled masterpieces.
His Bacchus alone is sufficient to explode a theory favoured by some critics, that, left to work unhindered, he would still have preferred a certain vagueness, a certain want of polish in his marbles.
Conspirators against their country, whether trusting to their own forces or to foreign aid, have had more or less success in proportion as they have been favoured by Fortune.
Among the closest friends and intimates of the Emperor Commodus, were two captains of the pretorian guards, Letus and Electus, while among the most favoured of his distresses was a certain Martia.
And if Philip was lucky enough to escape, another, not similarly favoured by the nature of the ground, might not have the same good fortune.
On the other hand, were a republic so favoured by Heaven as to lie under no necessity of making war, the result of this ease would be to make it effeminate and divided which two evils together, and each by itself, would insure its ruin.
For the paths wherein his danger lay were those which favoured the Medici, and it was by these that his enemies attacked him, and in the end overthrew him.
The organ was so great a success that Dallam became a favoured man.
Godoy favoured the attachment, and employed all his influence to bring about the marriage.
Napoleon has less than any man provoked the events which have favoured him; no one has more yielded to circumstances from which he was so skilful to derive advantages.
To morrow I might hang before my door twenty persons obnoxious to public opinion, though I should not be able to imprison for four-and-twenty hours any individual favoured by it.
It was Baron Plessen, the Duke of Mecklenburg's Minister of State, who favoured me with a sight of the King of Denmark's letters.
Among these patronised men were many who had been the first patrons of Bonaparte and had favoured his accession to Consular power.
Yet," added he in a tone of firmness, "you accuse me of having favoured that club, and I repel the charge.
I am not sure whether it was in Corsica or in Paris, but I know for a fact that Bonaparte, in spite of his youth, or perhaps I should rather say on account of his youth, was the favoured lover.
Everybody must have been aware that Fouche, in his heart, favoured a Republic, where the part of President might have been assigned to him.
The project he had formed, when he favoured the revolution of the 18th Fructidor, was now about to be realized.
Such was his predilection for things of immediate and certain utility that even in the sciences he favoured only such as applied to terrestrial objects.
I laughed heartily, and I can tell you that my Pasha in his private room laughed heartily also, at your having sent that ill-favoured cur Osman Bey into his own town tied on the back of an ass!
Fortune so far favoured our adventurers that several miles before reaching Girgeh they saw the party of which they were in search seated on the ground near a spring of water, and refreshing themselves with the fragrant fumes of the pipe.
Is he then so well-favoured as he had been described?
It is said, that a few men, favoured by the Most High, have received power to perform miracles.
Sometimes it is only perceptible to the favoured individual himself, but more generally is to be discerned by any person of ordinary shrewdness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "favoured" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
