For more than an hour, James and his principal nobles and favouritescontinued in deliberation up stairs, the nature of which only transpired in vague rumours.
State favouritesplotting against the King, endeavoured to induce him, while she was yet quite a child, to engage his daughter in marriage in a certain direction.
Returning to England in May, 1575, Philip soon became one of the greatest ornaments and favourites of the brilliant Court of Queen Elizabeth, who showed him many tokens of her appreciation.
And it's no kindness for me to lie to you about these matters.
Nevertheless the timid red, or sickly yellow-grey, brick of the existing houses is pleasingly veiled by ivy and Virginia creeper, while no shop front obtrudes derogatory suggestion of retail trade.
You must pardon my ignorance, since I have lived very much out of the world.
I clutched at a personal reward, if not of spoken gratitude yet of subjective content.
In the far northwest the last of the sunset had faded; only the cloud remained.
It may be illustrated more fully by two examples, favourites of his, taken from Aeschylus and Sophocles.
And not a little of life at Court, and of thefavourites with whom King James surrounded himself:--"They say one shall see fine sights at the Court?
It is with some hesitancy, since the proof to me is not conclusive, that I suggest that the animus in this play against favourites and intelligencers has perhaps more of a personal flavour than has hitherto been suspected.
And then Lucy, beaming with delight, had a full view of the fortress, and found herself placed exactly opposite the window at which the Queen was to sit with her favourites to watch the show.
The Queen's highness is loth to lose her supremacy, and there are favouritesat Court who would ill brook to be displaced by a rival power.
But perhaps he is obliged to conceal the emotions of his soul, lest some of those spies who are always hanging round the favourites of princes should take advantage of him.
And thus shall we, by the assistance of the favourites of heaven, triumph.
One or two special favourites have a lock of their hair let into the woodwork of the frame.
Ivory and sheeps' knuckles are favourites with children, who in modern times have added a small rubber ball for a Jack.
No French packs, and very few English ones, contain a Joker, since the games that call for its use are not favourites in those countries.
He was well acquainted with the king's character: every favour the latter granted was a title to his hatred, and he never failed to be jealous of the credit, dignities, and presents which his favourites extorted from him.
The preceding favourites had been very blind in trying to establish their credit on the disunion of the married couple; for, in such a struggle, they must necessarily succumb.
At other times, his Majesty, lying on the ground, represented a criminal on the wheel; one of his favourites was the executioner, and counterfeited his movements with a roll of paper.
Both were members of the Colonial Council, and they had been favourites of the Corporation in England; and one of them, an experienced and meritorious lawyer, had been a member of the Board of Assistants in London.
The argument he used with the King was, that young princesses ought to have no favourites about them.
As those who are favourites find a number of followers at Court, these licentious young courtiers thought they might do whatever they pleased.
What I do mean, Miss Cotton, is that neither sex willingly accepts the favourites of the other.
But, Jenny, there are no universal favourites in Harvard now, if there ever were: the classes are altogether too big.
If we accept this solution, we may be enabled to understand why an author not unfrequently makes favourites of some of his productions most condemned by the public.
They were now the favourites of all the powers of heaven, and gladdened every banquet by their presence.
Her malefavourites were as openly paraded as the female favourites of King Louis XV.
So great favourites are they with the fisherman, that they would not knowingly kill an osprey for a boat-load of fish, but regard these bold fishing birds in the light of "professional brethren.
They were themselves, of course, natives of Old Spain--often the pampered favourites of that corrupt court.
Why had they so suddenly become such favourites with the field-cornet?
They would not obey, but they were quite ready to accept benefits, to experience deliverance, to become the favourites of heaven, to march to Palestine.
The wife, who is cunning enough, governs her husband entirely, and has gained over his favourites to be her creatures.
He was one of the favourites of the late Monsieur, and was said to have been handsome once.
Some ladies had them for favourites or pets; but they were found mischievous and dangerous.
Lord Mowbray's soldiers of course took his part; and those who were most his favourites abused us the most.
No, they are the men of fancy, the favourites of the sex, who outwardly respect, and inwardly despise the weak creatures whom they thus sport with.
Can a Christian suppose, that the favourites of the most High, the highly favoured would be obliged to lurk in disguise, and practise the most dishonest tricks to cheat silly women out of the money, which the poor cry for in vain?
True, but they then become tyrants; for it is not rational freedom, but a lawless kind of power, resembling the authority exercised by the favourites of absolute monarchs, which they obtain by debasing means.
It was no longer the nobles whom they sought to bribe to their interest, but the towns; and as gifts and pensions to Court favourites declined, courtesies and gracious remissions of rent were lavished on the boroughs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "favourites" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
