There is a vast deal of difference in memories, as well as in everything else, and therefore you must make allowance for your cousin, and pity her deficiency.
I could transport you for a short time into our circle in town, that you might understand how your power over Henry is thought of there!
Those five or six days more at Lessingby might have been felt all my life.
This wedding has occasioned conferences; besides, Percy was exacting at Christmas, and I had rather tried to tease him.
I had rather be useful to you and Arthur than to any one.
That Gardner should obtain a rich wife would be the greatest relief to Colonel Martindale; but he had ratherit should have been any heiress in the world but Emma Brandon.
Were it made of such pococuranti as you, the world would be intolerable; and I had rather live in a wilderness of monkeys, and listen to their chatter, than in a company of men who denied everything.
He swore he had rather go on the treadmill than stay there.
We know, for the most part, that it is false coin, and we take it we know that it is flattery, which it costs nothing to distribute to everybody, and we had rather have it than be without it.
Not knowing that they were staying at the Mayor's, he had rather settled it that they would now stroll up to the place where they had left their hoard and bring it down as soon as night had fallen.
I had rather be a mark for all the musketeers in the Parliamentary army.
I had rather stand up to be a mark for all the musketeers in the Parliament army than be where I am now.
I had rather be set up for a mark for all the musketeers in the Parliament army, than set one foot out of doors after dark!
Because I had rather go at it at once, and forget all about other people.
Now I won't have little Amy asked the sort of question she most dislikes,' interposed Laura; 'I had rather ask if you laugh at us for thinking many ghost stories inexplicable?
If the liberality of a prince be without measure or discretion, I had rather he were covetous.
I had rather my son should learn in a tap-house to speak, than in the schools to prate.
We replenished our stock of provisions, which we had rather neglected, at Spean Bridge, and treated ourselves to another little picnic in the lonely country beyond.
I had rather it had been told me, the reader, at once.
I had rather be a doorkeeper in your margin than have their proudest text swelling with my eulogies.
We are pretty stout about it; have had plenty of condoling friends; but, after all, we had ratherit should have succeeded.
I had rather (forsooth) go before you like a man, then follow him like a dwarfe M.
Alas I had rather be set quick i'th earth, And bowl'd to death with Turnips Mist.
But if we cannot stay here, I had rather be with Selina.
She has only got to make him a curtsey and say, 'Very much obliged to you, sir, but I had ratherbe excused.
I had rather that, if he transgresses, he should not break his word as well as run into temptation.
It was before I was born, when he thought he was going to have Fern Torr and all, he had rather an idle fit, and these were what papa wrote to him.
I had rather heare (Lady) my Brach howle in Irish Lady.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had rather" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
