Preferable

Wednesday was never to come, and yet it did come, and what is more, it is perfectly clear, both from its tone and handwriting, that you were much happier, or, if you think the term preferable, less miserable, when you wrote it than when you wrote the last one before. ❋ Various (N/A)

His younger brother, the count of Penthiev had left only one daughter, whom the duke deemed his heir; and as his family had inherited the duchy by a female succession, he thought her title preferable to that of the count of ❋ David Hume (1743)

For to what else was owing our ruinous war of the Two Roses than to an original demur in our courts of law whether the descendant of an elder son through the female line had a title preferable or inferior to that of a descendant in the male line from a son confessedly _junior_? ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

Optional but preferable is access to refreshments (e.g. in a coffee shop). ❋ Unknown (2010)

One major component of the 2011 route that Vande Velde finds preferable is the eight flat stages over the first 11 days of racing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even if the synthetic price is many times that of the natural product, it still will be preferable from a national gain point of view. ❋ Unknown (1944)

I could draw the comparison between our situations & point out how preferable is yours. consider them yourself. you have the affection of a deserving object. nothing but her becoming worthless can deprive you of it. ❋ Unknown (1793)

The only reason I can see why a 5.1 Surround sound track might have been preferable is the accentuate the show’s excellent soundtrack. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Given these issues, it is useful to understand why a serverless architecture is preferable or in other words, whether centralized servers are inherently evil. ❋ Unknown (2004)

We now have three quarters of the welfare population of this country participating in some fashion in these experiments, and that is one way to reform welfare as we know it if we can't get what would be preferable, which is a national welfare reform bill. ❋ ITY National Archives (1996)

For the outside a slightly different treatment will be preferable, that is, a portion of glass-paper of the finest grain placed as before in front of a block of wood. ❋ Horace Petherick (1879)

Resolved that they recommend also to the said committee to procure Squares of marble for paving the Portico of the Rotunda if they find that it can be done on terms preferable to what it will Cost to have the same paved with country Stone. ❋ Unknown (1823)

Partly, this was due to the tacit realization that, if marriage could not be defined as a preferable yet inferior alternative to celibacy (primarily for priests and nuns, but more generally as a principle of the pure christian), then there could be no moral barrier to a married priesthood, something that had been rejected since the Middle Ages (because of questions of inheritance more than anything else). ❋ Mark Tiedemann (2010)

Eventually, they came together and established what Prince Turki described as a preferable institutional dialogue, rather than being subject to the "whim and will" of two heads of state. ❋ Unknown (2009)

» Sorry, but no Posted by: Joshua Holland judeophobia, islamophobia terms preferable not anti semitism ❋ Unknown (2009)

Drivers consider such wake-up calls preferable to being ticketed or towed, says Hurwitz. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I find this prose treatment of the elusive, allusive euphemism preferable to the dictionary approach because it offers the reader useful comment at a length stylistically proscribed by the customary glossarial treatment, regardless of how loosely it may be interpreted. ❋ Unknown (1986)

Shade of any type is not required, and if it is used it is "preferable" that native trees are used. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Minister Luis Amado recently judging it "preferable" if Mugabe did not attend, since he might divert participants from essential issues. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Back in December, 2002, an anonymous U.S. government official suggested that, while capturing Al Qaeda would be "preferable" to killing them, murder would be okay, too. ❋ Unknown (2007)