Footnote 39: When enquiries are made into the condition of the poor, various degrees of distress will most probably be found, to render a different arrangement preferable to that which is already proposed.
In the first place, three hundred representatives fairly elected, are sufficient for all the purposes to which legislation can apply, and preferable to a larger number.
In the first place, three hundred Representatives, fairly elected, are sufficient for all the purposes to which Legislation can apply, and preferable to a larger number.
It is preferable to simple democracy even in small territories.
They who have esteemed me on former occasions, whether in America or in Europe will, I know, feel no cause to abate that esteem, when they reflect, that imprisonment with preservation of character is preferable to liberty with disgrace.
Even in the first age being free, contented, and accountable to man for their labour and management, their condition in many respects was preferable to that of the poorest class of labourers in Europe.
Preferable then would he have deemed his fate had a warrior's death left him a claim to the narrow territory of a grave within the soil which the king had given him to defend.
I do not chuse it," cried Cecilia, with quickness, "but is not any thing preferable to dwelling with Mr Briggs?
After this system came into operation, the advantage of getting a certain compensation would appeal to a great majority of injured workmen as preferable to the gamble of a law suit.
If you know my master, as you say, he is quick and fierce of temper, and if I must die, the stroke may be preferable at your hand.
No illumination can be preferable to the mountain moonlight.
I thought you had found an occupation so far preferable that you would not care to go on with this.
In any of the southern cities the girl would be pretty sure to be reserved for a worse fate; but even here, death seems to me a thousand times preferable to the life that is before her.
I think this is preferable to steering either with a rudder or with a single long oar, as the whalers do, as it not only enables a crew to turn their boat almost on her own centre, but economises nearly the whole strength of one man.
But she had no friends to whom she might apply for aid; and to a refined and sensitive nature, almost anything else ispreferable to seeking charity from strangers.
Anything was preferable to the fiery torture which awaited us.
Depend upon it, that open-hearted candour is ever preferableto secrecy.
Wicked" is preferable to "ungodly," as the designation of the subjects.
The reading of 2 Samuel is preferable in the last clause of ver.
But the "trouble" was preferable to "security," for it drove to God.
It were to be wished indeed, this Medicine was introduced into all the Apothecaries Shops, as an excellent Stomachic, in which Respect it is much preferable to Venice Treacle, which is an absurd Composition, dear and often dangerous.
Doubtless pure, untoasted elemental Water may be preferable for those who like, and have been accustomed to it.
This Syrup is greatly preferable to all others, given in such Cases, and especially to Oil of Almonds.
Let the Belly be often fomented in pretty warm Water, which is the most preferable Fomentation of any.
Instead of rejecting the older stories of Joshua's conquests it may be preferable to infer that there were radical divergences in the historical views of the past.
Like all persons who have been very unhappy, she loved a benumbed existence with a semblance of tranquillity, and ignorance seemed to her preferable to everything.
Shaw says, that the breed of Egypt and Tingitania are preferable to all those of the neighbouring countries; and yet a century ago there were good horses all over Barbary.
It is also preferable to choose brood-mares from such as have always been kept at grass, and have never been hard worked.
There is not, in the extensive circle of human nature, objects more completely despicable than those who take upon them to censure and condemn a work, without being able to substitute any thing preferable in lieu of it.
In point of convenience, the confederation amended would be infinitely preferable to the proposed constitution.
I wished the people to have every opportunity of information, as I thought it much preferable that a bad system should be rejected at first, than hastily adopted and afterwards be unavailingly repented of.
I have been the more particular in stating the amendments to be made, because many gentlemen think it would be preferable to receive the new system with corrections.
Measured by this rule, the state of New Hampshire cannot expect a Constitution preferable to that now proposed for the union.
We will not say that it is not: it is at any ratepreferable to the second.
The air was unexceptionably pure and abundant--yet the Bedford level might have been preferable as a permanent residence.
My tanks are all filled with spring water, which I find altogether unobjectionable; but for the marine tank I think it preferable to any other in the manufacture of artificial sea-water.
In some districts slate is not to be easily obtained, and wood or stone are then the best substitutes, wood being preferable of the two.
Neither need there be artificiality or affectation in talk that is consciously cultivated; no more indeed than it is affectation to eat with a fork because one knows that it is preferable to eating with a knife.
To the end that conversation will not be interrupted, the "Russian" method of dining-table service is preferable to all others, and is becoming as popular in America as in the rest of the world.
She gave in to her grief with a sort of cruel delight, finding it preferable to the torture of feigning, which his unexpected visit had imposed.
He thought of sending Don Marcos; then refrained, considering it preferable to go himself.
You have helped me to learn the horrible truth; it was through you that I discovered it; and although it is killing me, I feel that it is preferable to uncertainty.
He considered it preferable to wait for her outside the church, with the advantage of taking her by surprise, without allowing her time to invent excuses to justify her conduct.
Though he were to be shipwrecked for ever, even that seemed to be preferable to supposing that he had been wrong.
The weather was still very hot, and Florence in the middle of September is much preferable to Naples.
Each of the sisters felt that she had been much better off at Nuncombe Putney, and that either the weakness of Mrs. Stanbury, or the hardness of Priscilla, was preferable to the repulsive forbearance of their clerical host.
They were coming up from Rome, and thought it preferable to take the route by Siena than to use the railway through the Maremma; and they intended to reach Florence that night.
Those also which are near to places where mills can be erected, and can consequently be more commodiously wrought, are often preferable to others that are richer, but require more expense in working.
We killed many of these animals for food, particularly for their hearts and tongues, which we esteemed exceeding good eating, and preferable even to those of bullocks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preferable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
