| 1. | "He used to have a predilection for Bacchus.. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 2. | Marilla's astonishment could not have been greater if Matthew had expressed a predilection for standing on his head. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 3. | They seem, however, to have some predilection for the latter. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 4. | Tyche was worshipped in various parts of Greece, but more particularly by the Athenians, who believed in her special predilection for their city. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 5. | Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate I desire, therefore, in this narration, to state those facts which led to my predilection for that science. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 6. | Every human being is born with preferences and predilections which manifest themselves from earliest childhood to death. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 7. | It is quite impossible for a man NOT to have the qualities and predilections of his parents and ancestors in his constitution, whatever appearances may suggest to the contrary. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 8. | These predilections for overlooking the obvious, the tangible and the necessary elements in everyday existence tend to make of the Cerebral what he is so often called--a "visionary.. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |