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Example sentences for "under favour"

  • Under favour, my lord," replied his domestic, "it is unequal dealing to be equally offended by my speech and by my silence.

  • Under favour," said the Varangian, who was the only auditor of this violent speech, "you shall be ruled by calm reason while I am with you.

  • Surely though my captain, Achilles Tatius, is, under favour, little better than an ass, he cannot be so false of word as to train me to prison under false pretexts?

  • It is impossible,” quoth he, “under favour, to prove that ever I broke any one of them.

  • But, madam, under favour, what may all these people be that keep your ladyship company?

  • Methinks, under favour (most renowned Ptolomy) we are now slipped into a debate, a little beside the business.

  • Some of them lived like common highwaymen, by robbing Peter to pay Paul; and stripping honest men to clothe rascals, which is (under favour) but a lewd kind of charity.

  • The artillery being re-embarked, with the sick and wounded, he decamped in the night, under favour of a terrible bombardment and cannonading from the English fleet, and retreated to his own country without molestation.

  • The Soliel Royal had, under favour of the night, anchored also in the midst of the British squadron; but at day-break M.

  • Under favour, sir, that accounts for my not seeing him on it.

  • Where you did not get yours, under favour," was Robin's ready reply.

  • That last article, indeed, was not much of the side of what I pretended to pass for; but it did pass, under favour of the growing passion I had inspired him with.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    many soldiers; rocky point; under another; under arrest; under charge; under cultivation; under date; under existing; under favorable; under heavy; under other; under pressure; under pretence; under similar; under tail; under the present system; under their; under them; under tone; understand something; understand the; understand them; understand you; understanding heart; understood nothing; yellow satin