Vathek discovered also a predilection for theological controversy; but it was not with the orthodox that he usually held.
Nerkes concurred in opinion with her, and Cafour had a particular predilection for a pestilence.
This up-to-date queen's predilection for the automobile in preference to the state coach of other days or the plebeian railway has doubtless had much to do with the development of the automobile industry in Italy.
Lorenzo ever retained a predilection for his country house just below Fiesole, and the terrace still remains which was his favourite walk.
The great variety of expression, and the predilection for paraphrase by means of synonyms which is so characteristic of OE.
Allied with this is the fact that Marlowe still has a great predilection for masculine endings, although feminine endings are also met with now and then, especially in his later plays.
From his father Mr. Dunning inherited a predilection for the law, and doubtless his early association with his father's firm helped to develop in him his high ideals of professional ethics.
But it is undeniable that his predilection for the society of the great and wise of every age, to be found in his well-filled library, has tended more and more to withdraw him from the society of the shallow, the superficial, the frivolous.
As for his individual predilection in the matter, nature has considerately conformed to custom by giving him none.
A trifling predilection for the real thing in sonships is absolutely vital, even to the continuance of the artificial variety.
His personal predilection for pointing a moral to adorn his tale led him frequently to append a passage of homiletic comment which was not bone of the bone and blood of the blood of the narrative itself.
Very few of the great masters of narrative have, like Honoré de Balzac, employed both one and the other method with equal success: nearly all of them have shown an habitual mental predilection for the one or for the other.
Some of them might have a slight predilection for William; others a slight predilection for James; but it was not by any such predilection that the conduct of any of the breed was guided.
A negotiation was commenced for a peace with Holland, but this was after all nothing better than a Holland blind, for Charles's predilection for a French alliance was still perceptible.
With the usual contrariness of events, Eileen was perfectly indifferent which of the two she talked to, but Paddy, a little upset by her old playfellow's growing predilection for her quiet sister, wanted to talk to Jack.
Later on, Wolf used to like to think that he had a few drops of Latin blood in his veins; and all his life he had a predilection for the great French musicians.
But Elizabeth's predilection for rich attire is well known, and if the costume of her day was fantastic, it was still magnificent.
This predilection for learning, and the time perforce given to its acquisition, must necessarily have subtracted from those hours which might otherwise have been bestowed on the lighter labours and beguiling occupations of the needle.
This predilection of Billy's might have cured such a failing in any other man; but the more often Billy fell into the river the less inclined he was to accept the water cure.
And I now discovered—when it was too late—that this predilection on my part had only been lying dormant, and was not crushed.
If the policy of England before the peace of Nimeguen was mischievous and disgraceful, it would evidently have been far more so, had the king and Duke of York been abetted by this minister in their fatal predilection for France.
This alienation from the foreign churches of the reformed persuasion had scarcely so important an effect in begetting a predilection for that of Rome, as the language frequently held about the Anglican separation.
But was there not something of a more refined texture than friendship in his predilection for the company of Melissa?
Had herpredilection been in his favour, would she have hesitated to avow it?
Very little was wanting to revive the old predilection which, in the early days of their acquaintance, she had cherished for George.
The power that man exercises has always been inexplicable to me, as was your grandfather's predilection for him.
Employers have a predilection for the competition of these ladies, so as to lower the earnings of the poor working-woman and squeeze the last drop of blood from her veins: it drives her to exert herself to the point of exhaustion.
Candlelight was another predilection of Clare's--there was neither electricity nor gas in her tiny, perfect flat.
It is hardly rash to connect with his admiration for the elder artist Browning's predilection for these brief revealing glimpses into the past.
But he seized with a peculiar predilection those types and phases of the Art-world with which love has least to do.
But I think it is known to only a very few survivors that he had a predilection and even a passion for literature, which he shared, I should think, with no man of action of his time.
Do either of you fancy that I want courage to face a positive danger, because I may not happen to have any particular vulgar predilection for early rising?
He has, it seems, an almost insane predilection for white things.
From the noble pleasures of meat and drink and sex, thus generously treated; we must turn to another aspect of Rabelais' work--his predilection for excrement.
