"Favor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and declaring that a great wrong had been done the strangers. From that time forward, those who studied her closely saw that she had formed a strong distrust, if not dislike, of Waggaman and Burkhardt, though, seeing the high favor in which they were held in court, she sought to veil ...
— The Land of Mystery • Edward S. Ellis
... but two. The Vicar-General now knew that his slight feeling of worry at the time was not groundless; but while then he had felt vaguely that he was wrong in his position, now he was certain of error. His eyes sought all through his own witnesses, but they found no likelihood of a testimony in his favor based on the purchase of that grand organ. Then it all came to the Vicar-General, from the eyes of the Silent Angel, that he had received on earth all the reward that was due to ...
— The City and the World and Other Stories • Francis Clement Kelley
... physician during his practice comes upon one or more of these abnormal cases which, as Randall says, we label, for convenience, 'hysteria,' and I'm free to say that I don't think we're at the bottom of the matter. Let's be just to this girl. There are points in her favor." ...
— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland
... Walraven has told me. Pray favor us with one song before some less gifted performer secures ...
— The Unseen Bridgegroom - or, Wedded For a Week • May Agnes Fleming
... we are satisfied with so little. We ask for a crumb only. We are pleased with the slightest favor. A toy delights us; a little trinket elicits from us warm gratitude; a breath of balmy air is drunken with keen and pleasurable delight; a "fine" day is ...
— Tyranny of God • Joseph Lewis
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