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They avoided the open spaces, preferring to be seen of men, who were sure to be red men, as little as possible.
Mrs. LaGrange and her son were also absent, preferringto take their meals privately in an adjoining room which Hugh Mainwaring had often used as a breakfast-room.
The conduct of the whigs was patriotic in preferring their country to their party--in preventing a war with Great Britain--and in saving the administration from itself and its friends.
Let me give you another Instance of my Discretion, more desperate than that of preferring the Stage to any other Views of Life.
That is not impossible; men often preferring abuses to being thwarted in their wishes.
He fought for himself, sir, and has the merit of preferring liberty in a ship to slavery in the desert.
Preferring that the latter should remain in command of the regiment, I put Colonel Coon on my personal staff, which reconciled the difficulty.
But he could not be persuaded to act in time, preferring to lie still till your campaign should be terminated.
In boyhood he had no liking for female occupations, or for the society of girls, preferring study and solitude.
Her image evoked at such times drove away such feelings, for which I felt a repugnance, much preferring the romantic ideal feelings.
Preferring to engage them separately, he marched from Amiens through Cambray, and sent forward some officers and pioneers to choose a spot for a camp on the Sambre.
Ptolemy Alexander, dying in the year 80, had bequeathed both Egypt and Cyprus to Rome; but the Senate had delayed to enter on their bequest, preferring to share the fines which Ptolemy's natural heirs were required to pay for being spared.
He did not encourage him, however, preferring by all means that the advances should be made by the young man himself.
Preferring his request, at length, Mr. Black cordially invited him to his residence, and giving him explicit directions, suggested that he should call that afternoon.
The owls went away of their own accord, preferring to retire to a hollow tree rather than to associate with their new landlord.
Some of them are fond of the plantations; others are never seen there, preferring the wild seeds of the forest to the choicest fruits planted by the hand of man.
Once this goodwill had been shown, he bore no malice towards those who rendered him his liberty by preferring Gambetta.
Lenthall, however, had no wish to resume his duties as speaker, preferring the House of Lords, and made various excuses for not complying.
It seems to have been the purpose of the chiefs to permit a free ingress of the entire force of the enemy, preferring rather to shut them up to famine there, than to meet them in the open field.
He was gentle, yet resolute; by nature intrepid, yet preferring to rely on the softer arts of policy.
Others, preferringfamine to this miserable diet, pined away from weakness and actually died of starvation.
He is angry with the world for preferring commonplace to genius, and rewarding stupidity by success; but in form at least, he mocks at his own folly for expecting better things.
There is nothing intrinsically virtuous in preferring a dinner of herbs to the best French cookery.
Still less was he selfish in the sense of preferring solid bread and butter to the higher needs of mind and spirit.
To recommend contemplation in preference to action is like preferring sleeping to waking; or saying, as a full expression of the truth, that silence is golden and speech silvern.
I will confess, at any rate, to preferring the men who have sown some new seed of thought above the heroes whose names mark epochs in history.
Much preferring these rural fêtes to a regular French ball, I have attended at many a guinguette since; but as this was the first, and had all the piquancy of a surprise, I beg leave to give you a short description.
In the autumn they feed very much on ripe fruit, preferring grapes, which they can swallow whole, and figs, which are soft and easily eaten.
Sometimes Ippolito listened, but Orsino always made an excuse for leaving the room, preferring to read the news for himself.
I should not blame any woman for preferring him to you.
Is it not known that some have committed murders in order to be condemned to death, preferring this punishment to a cell?
Others, preferring exercise to repose, were walking in the courts, in close ranks, four and five together, With locked arms.
It is said that, under the pretended right to a large inheritance, you visited England, and succeeded in preferring a claim to a vast estate?
Refusing the assistance of a guide, and preferring to be alone, he set out by himself, and on foot, to pursue the way homeward.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preferring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: better; favored; favoring
