The only difference consists in the suggestion of amnesia, or the subjective sentiment of sleep; or, if one prefers it, the subjective remembrance of sleep opposed to the remembrance of having been awakened.
If the child rebelled, the only thing to do was to strike it, and striking is no longer done; the parent prefers argument because the child is capable of understanding argument.
She prefers to stand there, exasperated and chafed.
He does not wish absolutely to lose his goods, but he prefers losing them to losing the ship or his own life: he wishes it under the circumstances and his act is so far voluntary.
The average man perhaps prefers an economic order in which there are prizes and blanks to an order in which every man draws out the same.
He prefers an exciting game to a sure but tame return of his investment.
Now the devil prefers to assail a man who is alone, for, as it is written (Eccles.
He is a day snake, but avoids sunshine and heat and prefers to seek his food after sunset.
Nothing edible comes amiss to him, but he prefers chickens and grapes to fallen caravan animals.
A third type prefers =verbal images of the auditory-motor kind=, with visual images a poor second.
A second typeprefers =visual= images, with verbal-motor a good second.
He prefers to use the epithet "anarchic" to designate political liberalism, which he combats.
Socialism" is here used as including Anarchism; and Tucker prefers so to use the word.
An excellent, useful, sensible, wise, and just maxim for all courts of judicature would be the reverse of that which prefers form to equity.
The Tsar, who so quickly takes offence nowadays, prefers flunkeys to Ministers whose personality is too marked.
His Majesty prefers cheerful people, not men who are pessimists," he laughed.
It has been my unhappy lot to learn that she prefers lollipops to lovers.
Will she elect to dance with this husband, who, as report goes, so openlyprefers another?
The author prefers to arrange them to miss, by which device each connection is entirely separate, the riveting can be more efficiently executed, erection is simplified, and the rivets will be more likely to keep tight.
If he sometimes carries away a fowl, it is exceptional; he prefers to live on carrion or bones, the remains of the feasts of man or of the true vulture.
If there is a question of hunting larger game like a Hare, the Raven prefers to take an ally.
The burrow possesses two openings: one, which the animal prefers to use, which sinks vertically into the soil; the other, the passage of exit with a gentle and very winding slope.
Unlike most other burrowing species, the Vizcacha prefers to work on open level spots.
As its name indicates, it prefers to frequent the walls of old buildings and finds a refuge in the interstices, hollowing out the mortar half disintegrated by time.
Illustration: For the morning and evening meal he prefers the open air and the cuisine of the warong.
To all other pleasures, the Javanese prefers that of witnessing a performance of the wayang, the native theatre.
They are also rivals for the love of their cousin Alix, and as she prefers Olivier, this sends Tristan literally "to the Devil.
The numerous and complicated causes of this weakness, or, if any one prefers to call them so, the numerous and complicated causes of this enjoyment, had no hold whatever on Maupassant.
In the first act Valentine disdains love: he prefers to travel and win honour; but as soon as he reaches Milan and sees Silvia, he falls even more desperately in love than Proteus.
Nothing sets his teeth on edge "so much as mincing poetry": and a little later he prefers the howling of a dog to music.
Finally, Henry is not only shown to us as gentle and loving, but as a man whoprefers quiet and the country to a King's Court and state.
The man who speaks like this is not the man who despises love and prefers honour, but one who has already given himself to passion with an absolute abandonment.
But money can't buy her--prefers the legitimate drama to this sort of thing.
Exhausting his brain and nerve force by the highest creative efforts of the Muse, he prefers perfumed and diluted alcohol flavored with carbonic acid gas.
This bloodthirsty insect, which fattens at the expense of the human species, prefers the more delicate skin of women, but preys neither upon epileptic persons, nor upon the dead or dying.
The Liberian government takes charge of all persons landing as emigrants and looks after their comfort preparatory to their settling; but if one prefers he may secure board in the best of families at a cheap rate until settled.
The pessimist lives in an unwholesome atmosphere, he will not see the sunshine because he prefers to stay down in the valley beneath the cloud of doubt and surmounted with the fog of hopelessness.
Behold a modern wedded dame who prefers seclusion with her liege lord to gayety without him!
The man of artistic temperament naturally prefers art, and says it is the highest.
This latter process is division by dichotomy, and Plato prefers it because, though it is tedious, it is very exhaustive and systematic.
And how much human nature loves the knowledge of its existence, and how it shrinks from being deceived, will be sufficiently understood from this fact, that every man prefers to grieve in a sane mind, rather than to be glad in madness.
Wherefore deservedly is man left to fall away from Him who made him, when he prefers to himself that which he himself has made.
But if this distinction has been made by the few wise, why has Virtus been preferred to Venus, when reason by far prefers the former?
It alwaysprefers a mountainous country, or high grounds.
What the will dictates or prefers as gratifying or satisfying; hence, will; choice; wish; purpose.
Simply one who prefers the useful to the useless; and who does not?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prefers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
