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Prefer to, as in We would rather eat dinner before the movie . [Mid-1500s]

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This is about no longer accepting that—as so many others have stated—a family would rather have a dead son than a living daughter.

Hatuey replied that he would rather burn and be sent to hell than ever again encounter people as cruel as the Spanish.

We proud skeptics would rather trust the demonstrable facts than the alleged truth.

Sure, some parents would rather pretend their kids would never look at that stuff.

As Weber writes, the film “would rather Katniss be a conflicted hero instead of a romantic lead.”

Were you ever arrested, having in your custody another man's cash, and would rather go to gaol, than break it?

But he put her gently by, saying, "I would rather be here, good Marda;" and went in and locked the door.

"Perhaps you will not care to retire, and would rather sit out where the air is best," she suggested.

I would rather go to church with Dolly in homespun, than ride in a carriage beside that shrivelled piece of tanned leather.

I would rather have Sue Greysons skin stuffed with straw than to have you around the house.

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