I could have delivered you before this, but I saw that you were not in any immediate danger; so I preferred postponing it until the Count de Cazeneau had left.
For various reasons, however, he preferred going nearer; and therefore he had refrained from sending the boat ashore that day.
He, therefore, deliberately preferred to run any risk that might be before him, with the faint hope of seeing Mimi again, rather than to attempt flight.
Claude himself would certainly havepreferred letting things remain as they were.
His nerves were, as he himself put it, anyhow, and he preferred retiring for the rest of the evening.
To his annoyance--for under the circumstances he preferred to be alone--he found two men sitting in front of his empty hearth.
He told lies--in fact, he preferred to tell lies; truth had no charm for him.
The Boy preferred to come and go like that, ungreeted and unquestioned, and the Tenor of course humoured this harmless peculiarity with the rest.
If she preferred the latter, she might go to see her, but she should not return to him.
She could not have kept up a conversation with him had she wished to, but she preferred to withdraw herself and let him monopolize Edith.
It is not to be supposed that the womenpreferred to be ignorant, and therefore I presume they were not allowed the educational advantages upon which the men prided themselves.
It is probable that the Pimo princess may have been secretly wedded or united to some man whom she really loved andpreferred to all others.
As Adrian the Fourth, he preferred Rome to England, and maintained his authority with as high a hand as any of his predecessors.
An unsocial tribe the Christians were, who rigorously shut their eyes to the beauties of abstract perfection, and preferred the plain orders of the gospel to the most ambitious periods of the emperor.
The rich Indian women preferred marrying their Spanish conquerors to allying themselves with the degraded remnant of their countrymen; poor artisans, workmen, porters, etc.
My hammock, which I had foolishly preferredto a bed, not having room to swing in, threw me furiously against the wall, till fearing a broken head, I jumped out and lay on the floor.
Here we breakfasted in the little portico, which we preferred to the interior of the cottage, chiefly upon tortillas and boiled tejocotes, a fruit which grows in great abundance, and resembles a small apple.
I only got off upon a promise of returning at half-past five to accompany them to the ceremony, which, in fact, I greatly preferred to going there alone.
The honours which I receive to-day are certainly great; but I should have preferred them before the never sufficiently mourned catastrophe of the immortal Yturbide.
For myself, I have somehow always preferred the boast of the Homeric Glaucus that we indeed maintain ourselves to be much better men than ever were our fathers.
He didn't mind fighting, if needs must be; butpreferred commerce and politics.
But he preferred to live on the sunny shores of Naples, and to keep within the circle of the king, where lay chances of higher preferment, and he troubled his diocese little with his presence.
The road was so steep and rough that I preferred to walk, and soon getting ahead of my men I did not see them again until midday, and I had a good morning all to myself among the hills.
Hence it is preferred by the Chinese caravan men as well as by the great, or those in a hurry, who use relays.
It looked horribly insecure and I much preferred trusting to my own feet, but after all I never saw an accident, while I fell many times coming down the mountain.
Some said the Chinese preferred it so, others that if it were kept on the trees it would be stolen long before it ripened.
I should have preferred it otherwise, for there is more quiet and freedom in the villages.
St. Augustine, though he condemned the practice as an abuse of the Divine Word, yet preferred that men should have recourse to the Gospels rather than to heathen works.
Ariosto had greatly admired Florence, and celebrated its beauties in one of his finest poems; and was it to be borne that this young upstart, who had presumed to speak disparagingly of their city, should be preferred to him?
He preferred that you should think him guilty of bloodshed, of murder even, rather than tell you the real truth.
I would suffer anything sooner than leave you under any misapprehension of the grounds upon which I should have preferred to face a firing party rather than have been rescued at the sacrifice of your good name.
But he had an alibi all the time, my child; an unanswerable alibi which he preferred to withhold.
There was to Lady O'Moy's mind something very wrong about a woman who preferred a canter to a waltz.
So, since the night was soft and warm, he preferred the garden.
The drawing-room was perhaps a little too severe in its scheme of decoration: Daphne would havepreferred something more feminine.
In dealing with Boards and other representatives of bloated Capital he preferred to keep to the high moral and sentimental plane--the sufferings of the downtrodden sons of Labour, the equality of all men in the sight of God, and so on.
Some had no children, or only those that were too young to send, and some preferredsending to the public school, or thought they needed their children at home.
Ella would have preferred remaining amongst friends, but as her aunt did not consult her at all, she kept her opinions and feelings to herself.
He was as nice as he could be--though I should have preferredto find him less beautifully dressed in the country; but I always felt that about him.
Why didn't they give a ball in the winter, or a set of dinner parties if they preferred that?
He preferred to attribute Christina's present state of mind to mere reaction; if the reaction had taken a rather hysterical form, that, perhaps, was not to be wondered at.
Jeanne preferred to go against Paris, but the capital was at this time under the government of Burgundy, who had been appointed lieutenant by Bedford, and therefore was within the truce.
She had resolved his doubts, restored the realm, and made him King with the sacred oil upon his brow, yet he preferred to keep his money for his pleasures than to give it for the maiden who had done so much for him.
He says that God suffered her to be taken because she was puffed up with pride, loved fine clothes, and preferred her own pleasure to any guidance.
But the King preferred the "indelible shame of disgraceful ingratitude," for he made no effort of any sort for Jeanne's ransom or rescue.
Jeanne preferred going with the vanguard, but the leaders feared that they might run into an ambush, and would not permit the risk.
In the Fifteenth Century the name of the beloved disciple was preferred for children above all others; so we find numerous Jeans and Jeannes.
He preferred to talk to Lucy, whose playing he remembered, rather than to Miss Bartlett, who probably remembered his sermons.
Cecil, who naturally preferred congratulations to apologies, drew down his mouth at the corners.
No one was inside it, except one tourist; but its platforms were overflowing with Italians, who preferredto stand.
Girls like Lucy were charming to look at, but Mr. Beebe was, from rather profound reasons, somewhat chilly in his attitude towards the other sex, and preferred to be interested rather than enthralled.
She has given me to understand she preferred talking to old Pete Barnes to dancing with me.
So a smaller fortune, accompanied with enjoyment, is to be preferred to a great fortune, which, though great, is devoid of enjoyment and therefore useless.
Then those queens, dismissed by the king, went ashamed to their houses, and would even have preferred to have been in the embrace of death.
I think a good-looking husband, even though poor, is to be preferred to an ugly one, though he be emperor over the whole earth.
And a king, who is a hero in upholding religion, is preferred to a king, who is only a hero with the sword.
They were enabled by the joint efforts of Republicans and Northern Democrats to have a fair chance to say whether they wished to become a slave State or remain a territory; and the latter was preferred by four-fifths of the voters.
Among these men was Cobden, who had already planted himself in the road to wealth, but who preferred to remain poor that he might make England rich.
Jefferson preferred to violate those rights himself, as had been done by the Federalists in 1794, and Congress aided him in forbidding American ships to sail for foreign ports.
These men preferredconstitutional monarchy to either democracy or military despotism; but they meant to maintain their own rights; and they were much offended at the attempts of Charles X.
He preferred to march a thousand miles, through a hostile and barren country, to Moscow.
His inability to see the value of investigation and verification is disclosed plainly; and he preferred to have people try to "build science on ideas.
It cost more labor to effect this in Malines and Utrect, where the archbishops were at strife with their clergy, who, as they were accused, preferred to involve the whole church in ruin rather than submit to a reformation of morals.
The first has beenpreferred purely as a matter of style.
The Tyau translation was preferred since it was written by an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and may be regarded as the work of a Government spokesman.
For my part, and I speak as I think, I should have preferred to have run the risk of being devoured alive by some wild animal than to have been listened to and overheard.
Madame, too, wore several colors, and preferred red for embroidery, gray for dress, and blue for flowers.
How long is it since the Comte de la Fere preferred his request to the king?
But I know at what cost to themselves is the hospitality which the poor extend to a sick monk, and I preferred this hotel, where, moreover, I was expected.
I was not inclined to such hard labour, but preferred sauntering on in search of a spring.
Indeed it was so beautiful, that, the moment it was seen, it was preferred to every other colour.
