"He was ever base," she said--"as he was at first, so he is now. 'Tis thy favourite, Anne," lightly, and she delicately spurned the blackened tinder with her foot--"thy favourite, John Oxon."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
My mother she bid me cut him some bread: I cut him some bread, And I threw't at his head. My mother she bid me light him to bed. I lit him to bed, And wished he were dead. My mother she bid me tell him to rise: I told him to rise, And he opened his eyes. My mother she bid me take him to church: I took him to church, And left him in the lurch; With his grey beard newly-shaven. Ballad: WHY SHOULD WE QUARREL FOR RICHES. [A VERSION of this very favourite song may be found in Ramsay's TEA-TABLE MISCELLANY. Though a sailor's song, we question whether it is not a greater favourite with landsmen.英文原著 · 《Ancient Poems》
THE YOUNGER MISS WETHERELL. Ah, it is an age of luxury! I wish I knew which were her favourite flowers. It is so nice to be greeted by one's favourite flowers.英文原著 · 《Fanny and the Servant Problem》
A falling favourite has no friends; and Rumour wagged her tongue against Rochester louder and more pertinaciously than ever. A new favourite, too, generally endeavours to hasten by a kick the fall of the old one; and Buckingham, anxious to work the complete ruin of his forerunner in the King's good graces, encouraged the relatives of Sir Thomas Overbury to prosecute their inquiries into the strange death of their kinsman.英文原著 · 《Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions-2》
I would frighten out of the castle that dark, stiff, and stately Sir Frederick Langley, that is so great a favourite with your father, and so little a favourite of yours. I protest I shall be obliged to the Wizard as long as I live, if it were only for the half hour's relief from that man's company which we have gained by deviating from the party to visit Elshie."英文原著 · 《The Black Dwarf》
"I have heard of him," said the girl. "A man with a singular mind," said Kara; "a man against whom my favourite weapon would fail."
She looked at him with interest in her eyes. "What is your favourite weapon, Mr. Kara?" she asked. "Fear," he said. If he expected her to give him any encouragement to proceed he was disappointed. Probably he required no such encouragement, for in the presence of his social inferiors he was somewhat monopolizing. "Cut a man's flesh and it heals," he said.英文原著 · 《The Clue of the Twisted Candle》
But his favourite place was on the bench on the parquet of the old Boston Garden when victory was assured.美剧 · 《Billions》