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    favourite


    1. One of my favourite games over the months through to the coming of early spring birdsong was to recount those alternative life stories and to imagine myself in the place of either Aban or Menachem


    2. After he had driven his black beauty of a car out onto the lane and closed the back gate, she took a tin of something fishy out of the under sink cupboard , sat down in one of her rickety old kitchen chairs, the one next to the gently warming range, and poured herself a thick measure of her favourite Scotch


    3. On hearing about her favourite


    4. The band started to play your favourite song


    5. His favourite was the loaf that was made with a large round base


    6. In my arms I'm holding his favourite bouzouki, not the one with the inlaid mother-of-pearl flowers he holds in all his stage photographs, but his most treasured possession, the one he'd had since Piraeus, the delicate one; the undecorated one


    7. Complicated? Yes, I’m afraid it is at first, but once you master the movements you will find it is likely to become one of your favourite asanas


    8. It was my father's favourite village restaurant


    9. But the laughter died when a voice cut through the fun announcing the return of our least favourite man


    10. ‘One of my favourite authors wrote about a monk who lived in Shrewsbury

    11. 'Really?' I said, disturbed at such indifference to my favourite subject


    12. The very next day Burberry read about a famous film star and his wife in one of her favourite glossy magazines, a couple who had been happily married for over forty years and even had a barbecue sauce named after them


    13. Unfortunately Danny and Annie were thrust unceremoniously into the analogue Dickensiana of real life when their father keeled over with a massive heart attack one Saturday evening while watching the family’s favourite football team being trounced by Hereford United


    14. Favourite Child of mighty Zeus, you came to defend the people


    15. The final straw for Helen Roach came one Saturday morning when Lucy announced to her mother during a now rare and troubled family breakfast that she had entered a competition advertised in her favourite music magazine, the prize being the chance to meet the mystery singer


    16. Treacle has discovered her favourite man and is sitting on his lap being stroked


    17. 'This is my favourite place since I was a kid,' she said


    18. Consequently, the child’s favourite bedtime stories were


    19. Omi had told her it was his favourite place in the world


    20. favourite spot on the beach and cast out his lines, settling down in a

    21. his wife in one of her favourite glossy magazines, a couple who


    22. ‘What time are we supposed to be at your sister’s?’ I asked sleepily, lying in my favourite place, snuggled in the crook of Dave’s arm, my head resting on his shoulder


    23. I know some people would say it was a bit old fashioned these days, but it’s still a favourite of mine


    24. The smell of Arbnor Jasari overpowers Rezarta's favourite perfume and Alex has to open both of the front windows to stop himself from being sick


    25. favourite routes, and argued vociferously on the supposed merits of


    26. Arbnor Jasari, the good doctor, is aware of her movement and he prescribes for himself his favourite pick-me-up


    27. Ken starts to hum a childhood favourite, something about Mary and her little lamb


    28. ‘You’ve got a lot of my favourite authors here, Anna


    29. Chicken curry is a favourite of mine – as well he knows


    30. While Billy sits quiet and still amid the heavy metal sounds of the custody suite, his companions reach out and take his hands in theirs and the three of them begin to mime and mug like savant idiots, and with the sound turned down, with the picture fading to a single white dot, they start to belt out Billy’s favourite song without shifting a single molecule of air:

    31. Then you’d better butter several slices of bread for him, is there any blackcurrant jam left? It’s his favourite


    32. Jongleur; Yves the puppeteer (a favourite of the children in


    33. would be to catch him at his favourite tavern


    34. 'I can’t say that this is my favourite tavern in town,'


    35. had stood him many an ale in his favourite tavern over


    36. Ming sat on his favourite leather chair with his head in his hands, his beard poking out between his fingers


    37. The Cevennes is one of my favourite areas of France


    38. favourite day of the vacation


    39. Salzburg is one of my favourite cities, but it was


    40. If, in any country, the common and favourite vegetable food of the people should be drawn from a plant of which the most common land, with the same, or nearly the same culture, produced a much greater quantity than the most fertile does of corn ; the rent of the landlord, or the surplus quantity of food which would remain to him, after paying the labour, and replacing the stock of the farmer, together with its ordinary profits, would necessarily be much greater

    41. In those rice countries, therefore, where rice is the common and favourite vegetable food of the people, and where the cultivators are chiefly maintained with it, a greater share of this greater surplus should belong to the landlord than in corn countries


    42. In Carolina, where the planters, as in other British colonies, are generally both farmers and landlords, and where rent, consequently, is confounded with profit, the cultivation of rice is found to be more profitable than that of corn, though their fields produce only one crop in the year, and though, from the prevalence of the customs of Europe, rice is not there the common and favourite vegetable food of the people


    43. Should this root ever become in any part of Europe, like rice in some rice countries, the common and favourite vegetable food of the people, so as to occupy the same proportion of the lands in tillage, which wheat and other sorts of grain for human food do at present, the same quantity of cultivated land would maintain a much greater number of people ; and the labourers being generally fed with potatoes, a greater surplus would remain after replacing all the stock, and maintaining all the labour employed in cultivation


    44. Corn, besides, or whatever else is the common and favourite vegetable food of the people, constitutes, in every civilized country, the principal part of the subsistence of the labourer


    45. invoked a silent prayer to three or four of his favourite


    46. “Well, no favourite as such


    47. That remains my favourite serial


    48. After all he is your favourite author,” I said teasingly,


    49. had this favourite line ready, whenever we failed to answer her


    50. of time is their favourite job














































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    Synonyms for "favourite"

    favorite favourite darling dearie deary ducky pet front-runner best-loved favored preferent preferred

    "favourite" definitions

    a competitor thought likely to win


    a special loved one


    something regarded with special favor or liking


    appealing to the general public


    preferred above all others and treated with partiality