...My own preference would be thatyou continue using rough paper and your present mechanicalconstruction, so that more money will be available to payfor the stories... 
Various 「Astounding Stories, August, 1931」
...This timidity of bearing restrained him within the limits of ordinary politeness, and no woman could boast of having any preference shown her beyond that shown to others...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
...The chief is elected, and they choose the son of the deceased chief's sister in preference to his own offspring...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...It was soon perceived to be the object of our opponents, to impress upon the public the preference, of regulation to abolition...
Thomas Clarkson 「The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the」
...We chose the Nigeria, which is an Elder-Dempsterfreight and passenger steamer, in preference to the fast mailsteamer because of the ports of the West Coast we wished to see asmany as possible...
Richard Harding Davis 「The Congo and Coasts of Africa」
...Hence so many students choose the lamp in preference to the sun, and children mostly clamour when told at 8 o'clock to go to bed...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1」
..." This was an exceptional case, yet he had too much sense to continue in such a life in preference to freedom...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...I have been to Georgia; but Carolina is my preference...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
... People had to have lawyers, and they gaveme their business in preference to the carpet-baggers...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The House Behind the Cedars」
...But as, on the other hand, this fasciculus is in relationwith the triceps, we shall in preference consider it in relationwith this latter (see )...
Édouard Cuyer 「Artistic Anatomy of Animals」
...We will contentourselves by calling to mind that the common measurechosen by preference is the length of the head, and that,ordinarily, it is with it that we compare the dimensions ofother parts...
Édouard Cuyer 「Artistic Anatomy of Animals」
...Its fatal preference for open ground and its habit of pausing to stare at the hunter have been, and to the end will be, its undoing...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
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