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Example sentences for "would rather"

Now I would rather be robbed than do that; I would not shoot a highwayman.

However (said he,) I would rather be attacked than unnoticed.

I would rather hear a rough truth than the most complimentary evasion.

I think I would rather stay at home," said she.

She replied: "I think I would rather go to my room.

I would rather stay in my own room, Father,' returned Little Dorrit, finding it more difficult than before to regain her composure.

I would rather pass my life here with you, and go out daily, working for our bread, than I would have the greatest fortune that ever was told, and be the greatest lady that ever was honoured.

I would rather,' said Clennam, 'be taken to the Marshalsea than to any other prison.

I would rather come on with you, sir," he said eagerly.

My brother was civil, but I saw he would rather have me away, and continue his stewardship.

Yes, I would rather be hungry than cold, any day.

Yes; I would rather of the two that she went away first.

I would rather we lived poor all our days than that he should wear his life out, trouble his spirit, perhaps even soil his conscience, by squabbling with a bad man over money matters.

I would rather be a gamin in Paris streets than my brother William at Luxmore Hall.

Your landlord has--I would rather be the poorest among you than Lord Luxmore this night.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass, unless where man has broken ground.

I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.

I would rather by a thousand times," answered Wayland, "pass it through his body, or even mine own.

I would rather be the bride of Destruction!

I sincerely hope that I take a wrong and gloomy view, but I cannot help fearing--I would rather see no Life than one that would interest very few.

But I interrupted him before he had spoken a dozen words, declaring I would rather return to the book-binders than chance another such experiment.

I would rather blow my brains out than defraud my creditors of a single penny that was rightfully theirs.

I would rather die, or even commit the greatest crime!

I would rather be able to say I knew it in its swaddling-clothes, than in maturer age.

But however desirous to enlarge on his genius as an artist, I would rather speak of him now as a friend who has gone from amongst us.

I would rather go off right away to my home, and only have my five hundred francs.

I would rather go back at once to my home.

When the carriage stopped at their door, she asked me to come in, but I told her I would rather not.

No, I would rather go, and wait for you at Lyons.

At all events, recollect that I positively forbid the whites of eggs for the future, for I would rather have a little less enjoyment and more security respecting your health.

I love you too, but your desire makes me laugh; for I would rather not be turned into a woman to please you, especially as I expect I should not think you nearly as beautiful.

POLUS: I would rather, Socrates, that you should answer as well as ask that question.

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