prefering

Updated: May 24, 2025

"She certainly is not like what she was when Colonel Forrester first knew her," he said, in the abstracted tone of one talking without reference to any other auditor than himself; "but this comes of prefering a nigger to a white man. Such unnatural courses never can prosper, I take it."

John Richardson - The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Volume 2

Each was fully persuaded in his own mind as to what he did. "But for the fact that each one of the persons who together constitute an individual is well off the field before his successor comes upon it, we should not infrequently see the man collaring his own youth, handing him over to the authorities, and prefering charges against him as a rascally fellow.

Edward Bellamy - Miss Ludington's Sister